Being able to take care of yourself and your children is a great success. Emile and Moza – a couple living in Bujumbura, Burundi – managed to do so with hard work and initiative. The change came when they became members of a community microcredit group. And it involved more than just their family.
Reactivating the trust of local communities, supporting their capacities, making them protagonists of their choices. These are the paths chosen by AMU to fight poverty in Burundi. The tool used is the formation of community savings and microcredit groups. Like the one in Nyunganira.
Participating in community microcredit groups, in addition to providing support for individual activities, allows for the development of collective activities born from mutual trust.
It is through work that Richard began to realize his dreams, in Burundi: he produces and sells soap. The program Si può fare! Microcredito e microfinanza comunità (It can be done! Community microcredit and microfinance) accompanied the boy in starting this business.
In Friuli-Venezia Giulia, two meetings to tell and bring to life with a simulation the community microcredit that AMU adopts in its projects in Burundi.
After trying many jobs, Richard came across community microcredit groups. This is how his soap making business was born, which has grown and now leads him to have new projects to also support his community.
The name of one of the groups that CASOBU and AMU are supporting in the province of Ruyigi with the project Si può fare! Microcredito e Microfinanza comunità (It can be done! Community Microcredit and Microfinance) is a call to dreams, to hope, to the future and an exhortation not to give up to poverty. It can be translated as: “Go ahead, community!”
The success of community microcredit in Burundi also comes from the constant work and trust that is created in the field between the agents and the members of the groups. Jimmy is one of the leaders of the community microcredit group that operates in the province of...
Cécile is part of the community microcredit group «Tuzamurane» active in Burundi (specifically in Bururi) for two years and involving 30 people.
Emanuela and Stefano are in Burundi to monitor AMU and Casobu projects in the country.
Gédéon, married with two children, was the promoter of the first microcredit group in the town of Burishi, in Burundi, one of the poorest countries in Africa. With the experiences of that first group and the project “Si può fare” today we look to the future with new ideas.
The community microcredit and microfinance project “Si può fare!” in Burundi accompanies and supports Vivine’s dream of expanding her shop.