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    • Clotilde Ndayisenga with her daughter Ines Nihorimbere at their home in Rugombo, Cibitoke. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.Clotilde Ndayisenga with her daughter Ines Nihorimbere at their home in Rugombo, Cibitoke. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.Clotilde Ndayisenga with her daughter Ines Nihorimbere at their home in Rugombo, Cibitoke. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.
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    Why are we in Burundi? With high levels of poverty, malnutrition and maternal mortality, Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world. Concern Worldwide has been operational in Burundi since 1997 and currently implements programmes focusing on health, nutrition and livelihoods.

    Almost 80% of Burundians are living in extreme poverty

    The maternal mortality rate in Burundi is amongst the worst in the world with 740 deaths per 100,000 live births, making it one of the most dangerous places in the world to have a child. Our work in Burundi focuses on nutrition, health and livelihoods, with a particular emphasis on improving nutrition and overall health among people who are excluded from the health system. We specialise in community-based health and nutrition interventions.

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    Over the course of 2018, 3,393 families benefited from cash transfers and 2,319 benefited from coaching in health and nutrition by Concern-trained 'light mothers'.

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    Aline Nsabimana’s family shell and sort the dried beans they have just harvested. Chris de Bode/Concern Worldwide.
    Aline Nsabimana’s family shell and sort the dried beans they have just harvested. Chris de Bode/Concern Worldwide.
    Community Health Worker Jeannette Icimanishatse with one-year-old Nadia Niyihankuye Bukinanyana, Cibitoke, Burundi. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.
    Community Health Worker Jeannette Icimanishatse with one-year-old Nadia Niyihankuye Bukinanyana, Cibitoke, Burundi. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.
    Clotilde Ndayisenga (25) with her daughter Arlene Akimana (2) at their home in Rugombo, Cibitoke. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.
    Clotilde Ndayisenga (25) with her daughter Arlene Akimana (2) at their home in Rugombo, Cibitoke. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.
    Nurse Orene Nahimana measures three-month-old Roger Bimenyimana’s rate of breathing to diagnose if he has pneumonia. Photo: Concern Worldwide.
    Nurse Orene Nahimana measures three-month-old Roger Bimenyimana’s rate of breathing to diagnose if he has pneumonia. Photo: Concern Worldwide.
    Widow Isabelle Mundana (66) earns a living from selling white aubergines at market which she cultivates on her plot of land and kitchen garden, along with caja peas, Chinese cabbage, amaranth, onion and spinach. She has benefitted from nutrition and hygiene training and a series of money transfers as part of Concern’s community and household resilience programme to improve living conditions and livelihoods for the most vulnerable. Photo: Darren Vaughan/Concern Worldwide.
    Isabelle has received training and cash transfers. Photo: Darren Vaughan / Concern Worldwide.

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    We are working hard to combat extreme poverty and build resilience in Burundi through our livelihoods and health and nutrition programmes.

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    11 October 2020

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    This year’s GHI explores how we can ensure the right to adequate and nutritious food for all and achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 - amid ongoing climate extremes, conflict and a global pandemic.

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    Edmond (3) is severely malnourished. He lives with his parents Jean-Marie Mbonimpa (30) and Jeannette Nzobamwita (26) and brother Pacifique (5) and 10-month-old sister Yves in a small banana-leaf-covered house in Marembo, Gisenyi, Kirundo.
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    16 November 2017

    Why life is so hard in Burundi

    When instability and climate change blight a country already struggling with high levels of poverty, the consequences can be catastrophic. Burundi, a country in East Africa, reveals the dire consequences of such problems like no other.

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    Our codes and policies shape our organisation as a whole and ensure that we are always staying true to our values.

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    4 March 2019

    How money is spent

    Accountability and transparency are central to our values as an organisation. In fact, they are part of our core values. 

    A group of mothers and their children in Mutembo carrying a load of recently harvested beans. Burundi. Photo: Chris de Bode/Panos Pictures/Concern Worldwide
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    16 April 2019

    How we are governed

    Concern Worldwide (UK) is governed and regulated by our trustees. All our trustees are non-executive and are drawn from diverse backgrounds in business and professional life.

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