Province
The Anglican Church of Burundi
Diocese
Buye
Goal
To empower disadvantaged people, especially women and girls through the following activities
– Literacy and financial education
– Reproductive health education
– Promotion of gender equality
– Campaigns against gender-based violence
– Educating on poverty alleviation
– Micro-credit schemes
Activity
Through our activities we:
– Enable people to develop themselves by using their own means and resources and by developing self-values
– Train facilitators in new skills such as literacy, savings and credit by using PLA tools
– Capacity-build in business, savings, credit and literacy
– Monitor and evaluate programmes
Outcomes
To date we have:
– Trained 194 facilitators
– Established 923 accredited groups
– 5833 male and 16,063 female members accredited
– 36,000 poeple in savings schemes
– Broadened minds and given confidence and knowledge to participants, showing them that they have resources at their disposal they can utilise
– Successfully promoted women’s economic right and independence, equal access and gender equality