Help a Child Burundi

Burundi, also known as the heart of Africa, is located in the Great Rift Valley at the junction of the great lakes region and East Africa. The nation covers 10,747 square miles and it shares borders with Tanzania (east and southern side), the Democratic Republic of Congo (west side) and Rwanda (northern side).

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• Burundi’s GDP is among the lowest in the world (currently ranked 176th out of 195 countries) and it is considered to be among the twenty most vulnerable UN countries to climate change.
• In Burundi, only thirty percent of health facilities have basic drinking water facilities and only 52 percent have sanitation services. When it comes to household coverage, 42.6 percent of urban households have access to clean water in their homes while only 1.2 percent of rural households have access to clean water in their homes.
• 67 percent of Burundi’s population consisting of approximately 12.1 million people cannot afford a nutritious diet. While 52 percent of children in Burundi suffer from malnutrition.

Help a Child in Burundi contributes towards increasing children’s access to early childhood development and child protection services, youth’s access to finance, vocational and professional skills trainings, improving food security and livelihood conditions of vulnerable households, meaningful participation of youth and women in community structures, the rehabilitation of essential community infrastructures, disaster risk reduction, mitigation, response and management.

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