BURUNDI
Living Waters supports the Children’s Refuge in Burundi (CRIB)
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Specifically we support Chrissie Chapman
Today, there are more than fifty children in the CRIB work (Children’s Refuge in Burundi), and a school where they are all being educated in English, along with other children from the city.
Background
Total population (millions) 7.3, Life expectancy at birth (years) 44, Adult literacy rate (% age 15 and above) 59.3, Combined primary, secondary and tertiary gross enrolment ratio (%) 36
(Source http://www.wer-uk.org/site/pages/ui_country.asp?ItemID=4)
Burundi has been left vulnerable from years of civil war, in which an estimated 300,000 people, most of them civilians, were killed. Years of instability and war have had a detrimental effect on the country's economic infrastructure and human development.
Access to food and basic services has been hampered and there has been little opportunity for economic development. The country lacks basic social services and it is often the women and children who suffer disproportionately. People are subject to continuing disease, trauma and displacement. Burundi has some of the worst health indicators in the world.
In 1995, after the genocide, Chrissie Chapman, a trained nurse, who had already founded a maternity clinic in Burundi, suddenly was faced with the plight of the babies that were being abandoned as their parents had been killed in the genocide. One day David Ndarahutse was handed seven babies at a refugee camp and soon arrived a Chrissie’s house. She immediately took them in and began to care for them – the rest is history.
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