Clotilde Ndayisenga with her daughter Ines Nihorimbere at their home in Rugombo, Cibitoke. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.

Burundi

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.

Latest achievements

Cash transfers

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'.

Emergency response

Food insecurity

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.

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.

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.

How we're helping in Burundi

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

Latest from Burundi

News

22 June 2018

One mum's journey to discover if her child has a killer disease.

22-year-old single mum Aline Nsabimana is concerned for the health of her three-month-old son Roger after he woke with a fever and began coughing two nights ago. She fears he may have pneumonia - a killer illness.

A group of 50 people work on restoring a 4km stretch of road in Rushanga as part of a cash-for-work initiative run by Concern to open up inaccessible areas and provide additional income for vulnerable households. In Gitega, more than 2,000 people have benefited from the community resilience programme. Photo Darren Vaughan

News15 December 2017

How Concern and UK aid is fighting global hunger

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.

News16 November 2017

“We suffer a lot”: why life is so hard in Burundi

Victoria Macumi tending to her kitchen garden in Burundi

News

14 November 2017

Tackling Burundi’s malnutrition, one garden at a time

With the latest data from the 2017 Global Hunger Index showing that Burundi's levels of hunger are “extremely alarming” read about what Concern is doing about it, and how your donations are making a difference.

Organisations who fund us

EU Trust Fund

Irish Aid

Department for International Development (DFID)

World Food Programme (WFP)

EU Trust Fund

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