Did you know that having an opportunity to help and serve people, it’s an honor and privilege to experience true joy and happiness ? Yes, there is joy in serving and helping others, especially those who are in Great need, enabling them to help themselves.

The following are our two main different projects that Youth in Reconstruction of the World in Destruction is undertaking and conducting in Burundi :

The Orphanage and School Building Project (Under construction)

Provide a home for street children, orphaned by Aids and war and give them a chance to live a normal life like other children ;

Give the widows an opportunity to raise those children as mothers in a home ; Sensitize and teach them a new way of living, behaving and acting for their bright future ;

Reduce the number of suffering children in the street and reintegrate them in a new life, new family, new society and give them an opportunity to have right to education.

For the Orphanage and School building Project, there are five blocks to be built there. Three of the five blocks, are at the level of roofing and other two blocks are at the level of foundation.

Carama and Ruhagarika Home building Projects (Under construction)

Rebuilding homes and opening a space for peace is JRMD/YRWD’s Mission and objective. JRMD/YRWD is involved to help people in distress rebuild hope and homes and help them to improve the lives. As you all know, Peace Education is not possible in and among the families who do not have where to live. There is no way to promote Peace, reconciliation, Education, Development, Safety, Health, etc … in and among the families who do not have shelters.

A home is one of the most important things which contribute to the GOOD living of a human being ; that’s why at JRMD, building homes for the survivors of the war and for the needy people is one of the strategies that JRMD/YRWD uses to promote and achieve peace, and give the youth a hope for their bright future.

Today in Carama, 643 of the 800 homes to be built there have been completed and around 4,000 people are living in these homes and continue to have their smile of joy and hope back, after over 10 years, suffering in refugee and displacement camps.

At Ruhagarika/Cibitoke 41 homes have been completed of the 60 houses to be built during the first phase- being funded by The Hope Project ; with David Scammell. Our plan is to build 500 homes in this location, where over a thousand homes were destroyed during the ethnic war.

Besides the above mentioned projects that are being undertaken, we also have other projects that are taking place :

Carama women farming project -being funded by Global Citizen Journey ; with Susan Partnow ;

Global Youth Exchange/Africa America exchange-being sponsored by Youth for a New World ; with Mike Seymour ;

Micro loan Project-being funded by Sound Essence Project ; with Susan Bradbury ;

Supplying water to the Orphanage and School building site-being funded by US Embassy in Burundi ;

Printing Christian and Peace building materials-being funded by The Heart of Africa ; with Rev. Dr. Michael Henderson ;

Promoting Peace and Reconciliation Through Music – looking for funding

Help Free Methodist Church, rebuild a church in Carama-being funded by The Heart of Africa, with Rev. Dr. Michael Henderson This is how JRMD/YRWD together with its Partners and friends are helping the communities in Burundi to improve the lives and become self-sufficient and promoting peace and reconciliation through different projects above mentioned.

Any contributions toward the above mentioned projects will make a difference among the communities in Burundi and help us make our dream a reality. Please, join us to make this to happen.

For more information about our work in Burundi and my two month visit in USA, please contact Rebekah Huskamp"Huskamp, Rebekah" huskar@spu.edu, telephone : 406.480.1602 or myself (Prosper Ndabishuriye) : ndapros@yahoo.fr or call me on my cell phone : 206 902 8090.

May 13, 2009

Prosper Ndabishuriye

General Coordinator