GITEGA BATWA - TRAINING BATWA PYGMIES YOUTH AND WOMEN IN GITEGA, BURUNDI.
First picture: This is Anitha, the student from Batwa people of Gitega that we gave the school tuition. She is with Amani (the taller one) and she is studying in an university. She is one of the very few Batwa that is studying in an university.
Anitha is progressing well with her studies and she is so thankful for what some Brazilians pastors and friends did to her.
The second picture with Jeremie Marinakiza, Gerard Ninziza, Claudine Ndayikunda and Innocent Niyongabo with Amani is the team that is in Gitega this weekend to train women and young people.
Jean Marie that is United States these days gives his testimony after he saw the pictures: “Wow! They look very clean and very smart today more than the first day I visited them. That shows the impact of the teachings we have been giving them before.”
This is a summary for what they are teaching this weekend:
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When a woman is empowered, it is the family which is in turn empowered.
Approach for You-We Empowerment
Youth empowerment programs are aimed at creating healthier and higher qualities of life for underprivileged or at-risk youth and women in unfavorable countries
The five key competencies will be focused:
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EDUCATION:
(1) C.H.O.I.C.E. Skills
C = C.H.O.I.C.E.S importance
H = How to Fail Forward
O = Opportunity Through Overcoming
I = Identifying Dilemmas
C = Consequences of Choices
E = Ethical Fitness
S = Seven Secrets of Ethics
(2) Positive sense of self skills (This focuses on seeing yourself through heaven’s eyes)
(3) Character skills
ECONOMY:
(1) Group work skills,
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(2) Business Idea Skills and
(3) Affordable and accessible loan services (this teaching insist on importance of microfinance institutions for capital)
Global Goal: The trainings focus on empowering young people and Women in a community to help them realize their potential.
Assumption: These trainings will allow young people to improve their standard of living thanks to what they already have within their communities without expecting that people outside the community will come to provide them with financial or other support.
Target group: These trainings aim to empower young people and Women who are the engines of the economy.
Zone of Intervention: We seek to reach the rural populations of Burundi starting with certain provinces which include Bubanza, Gitega and Karusi.
The number of trainees is estimated between 250 people who are individuals, or from different local associations and cooperatives.
Performance evaluation
• After the trainings we plan to do the follow up in order to ensure that the trainees are implementing what they gain from the trainings.
• We evaluate the impact of the trainings by knowing the specific number of our trainees who have already created their own jobs either individually or through associations and see how their standards of living have been improved after the trainings.
• We will ask them testimonies about how they were able to be the solution of their community.
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