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Foster Home
Yolanda’s Family association is a foster centre for children living
in the street. So we provide home, food, psychological support and education
for them. Now we care for 25 children and young people aged from 7 to
18. Our Centre is managed by 4 people from town: 1 supervisor, 1 assistant,
1 cooker and 1 janitor. Besides, there is a person helping with administration
and supplies from outside.
At the present time, the central home of the association
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Education
is not for
free in Burundi.
Just those who
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Education
 Education
is essential to keep the children out of the streets and offer a better
future to them. Because of that, every child participates in an educational
program. They must attend the school and they also get extension classes
in the afternoon to have them up to date.
Young people who cannot enter school have some workshops
about mechanic, needlework, hairdressing, and music. Their achievement
is remarkable. And all of them are outstanding students due to their great
enthusiasm. School attendance promotes their success and socializing.
Yolanda’s Family develops a Music Workshop with
local teachers. Furthermore, children and young people participate in
extracurricular activities like French language, Computer training, and
Soccer.
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Many
children lost
their parents as a
result of the
warfare conflicts that
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Reinsertion
 Kids
use to live in the street as a consequence of poverty and family’s
destruction. Yolanda’s Family welcomes them and tries to return
them to their former families, if possible, after the foster time.
This is a slow and gradual process, where families get
economic and social support from the Association witch looks for a natural
reinstatement. Our aim is that children can come back to their families
after that long time of living in the street.
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Leaving
the streets
is not enough for
young people. It is
crucial that
they learn
how to work
and get a job for
a living with dignity. |
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Labour
market
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order to obtain a good job for young people, Yolanda’s Family supports
the creation of micro business. This people support in some economic way
the Association and help the children in the Home to have vocational training.
That is our way to encourage cooperation among people inside Yolanda’s
Family Home and former members.
In addition, we have driven the Recording Studio Project.
The Studio is managed by four people and it is a benchmark in the whole
country today. Actually, some of the songs broadcasted through the country
where recorded in the Studio.
Besides of that, we have stimulated the creation of an
Orchestra, which participates in concerts and other events, the Photo
Studio, the Music Shop and the Car Repairing Centre.
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Health Care is
possible but only
if you can afford it. |
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Psychological
and Health Care
 Children
have qualified staff able to give them appropriate psychological support
to reach a complete human development. They have suffered great traumas
from childhood and they need professional help.
Children, employees, and families have health care as
for the signed agreement between Central Hospital and Yolanda’s
Family.
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Cultural customs
place down women in a very secondary role. They often suffer mistreatment
and sex abuses. They rarely go to the hospital. |
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Health
care for refugee women
 Women
are a very vulnerable minority in Burundi. They are often mistreated
and raped. As a result of that they suffer from illness that cannot
be healed because they can’t pay hospitals.
Yolanda's Family arranges
health care for 50 women from the refugee camp in Rugazi, inside
Bubanza’s region. We have signed an agreement with Bubanza’s
Health Centre and Bujumbura’s Central Hospital. As a result
of that, women and their families can reach medical care.
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