Informes

I. Résumé Ces dernières années, les hôpitaux publics du Burundi ont maintenu en détention des centaines de patients qui étaient dans l'incapacité de régler leur facture. Les patients étaient habituellement détenus pendant plusieurs semaines ou plusieurs mois, et dans…

I. Summary Over the past few years, public hospitals in Burundi have detained hundreds of patients who were unable to pay their hospital bills. Patients were routinely held for several weeks or months, and in one case for over a…

On the 31st of August (Thursday), the Government of Japan and the United Nations (UN) decided to extend assistance totalling 2,182,491.34 US dollars (approximately 246.62 million yen), through the Trust Fund for Human Security to a project entitled "Inter-Agency Programme…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last situation report was dated September 14, 2005. BACKGROUND After independence in 1962, the Tutsi minority maintained power almost continuously over…

ACTIVITIES AND UPDATES Repatriation: During the reporting week UNHCR encouraged the return of 1,772 refugees and assisted another 36 spontaneous. So far in 2006, UNHCR has assisted a total of 16,482 facilitated and spontaneous Burundian refugees. Update on Rwandan Asylum Seekers: Interviews…

ACTIVITIES AND UPDATES Training of Parents and Guardians of HIV Positive Children: The majority of HIV/AIDs infected children take medication without ample explanation. Certain parents find it difficult to give the correct answers to all the questions asked. That is…

Activities and Updates Training of Teachers and more classrooms: The Ministry of Education supported by UNICEF has intensified efforts to ensure quality education by training 935 teachers ahead of school resumption scheduled for next September. A two month training is…

The Federation's vision is to strive, through voluntary action, for a world of empowered communities, better able to address human suffering and crises with hope, respect for dignity an d a concern for equity. Its mission is to improve…

Activities and Updates Health agencies support the Government's decision on free Mother and child healthcare. Preparations for supporting the Government's decision on free health care for children under five and pregnant women continued this week. The main partner ECHO agreed to…

ACTIVITIES AND UPDATES Burundi Red Cross National Society assists the vulnerable returnees in Cibitoke: In collaboration with local authorities and the Governmental Reintegration Body PARESI, a branch of Burundi Red Cross National Society volunteers (500) in Cibitoke has made 700.000 bricks…