How has daily life changed now that drinking water is available? Three women who live on Nyarunazi Hill in Burundi answer this question. The impact of the Water Source of Life and Development project in Ruyigi on the habits, gestures, feelings and expectations of the community is crucial.
Women in the Batwa community in Burundi can now cook and wash with clean water. This is a big change for the villagers: many diseases will be avoided.
Since Ruyigi has had drinking water, the community’s life has improved. Starting with hygiene conditions.
Drinking water has reached the 650 pupils of the school in Nombe, Burundi, where the project “Water source of life and development in Ruyigi” is being carried out.
Emanuela and Stefano are in Burundi to monitor AMU and Casobu projects in the country.
The memory of Friederike is alive and concrete for all of us at AMU even now that she has left for heaven. In these days the life of Friederike Koller , a German focolarina, since 2014 a Councilor at the International Center of the Focolare Movement in Rocca di...
In the sustainability path of the project “Water, source of life and development in Ruyigi” the collaboration and involvement of local institutions and the population remains one of the fundamental aspects.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We all know how important it is to have access to education, but have you ever imagined what it means to go to a school without water or toilets? And what does it mean in the lives of children not having access to clean water?...
After the involvement of local authorities, the population of Ruyigi decided to make their manpower available
The Burundian Ministry of Water has validated the technical study for the construction of the water network foreseen by the project “Water source of life and development in Ruyigi”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The new project for the supply of drinking water (and more!) to the families of the community of Ruyigi, in Burundi, begins. Burundi is the second most densely populated country in Africa and one of the five poorest countries in the...
Let's protect the human right to water! In our commitment to guarantee the right to access to water as a universal human right, we propose the video “ A dream made of water ” from the project “Cities and the sustainable management of water and natural resources”...