Fondation Chirezi

Fondation Chirezi

[http://www.ourcongo.net/ Fondation Chirezi (FOCHI)] is a local non-governmental organisation established in the African Great Lakes Region by Floribert Kazingufu Kasirusiru (Flory Zozo). The core objective of [http://www.ourcongo.net/ FOCHI] is to build a campaign for a non-killing society in the Great Lakes Region - eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which has suffered both the Second Congo War and terrible waves of genocide in both Rwanda and Burundi.

"Since the early 1990s the African Great Lakes region – defined here as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania – has been convulsed by genocide, civil wars, inter-state conflict and flawed democratic transitions. With UN-sponsored peace processes underway in DRC and Burundi and projects of state and societal reconstruction apparently advancing in Rwanda and Uganda, there are hopes that the epoch of violence and exploitation in the African Great Lakes region is finally drawing to an end." [http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2006/rp06-051.pdf]

FOCHI is a local non-governmental initiative and has so far conducted seminars of ministers of religion and teachers, to create awareness and shift entrenched attitudes. FOCHI, with priority concern for women and children, is building local projects. The first is Farm of Hope School for orphans and children of single parent families at Kiliba, DRC, a border crossing town on the Ruzizi River, near the Burundi capital of Bujumbura. FOCHI's second project is a Women's Trauma and Care Centre in Bukavu, the capital of Sud-Kivu Province in the DRC, managed by [http://ourcongo.net/women/bukavu/index.htm Women Against Violence] . The situation of women in and around Bukavu has become perilous in the period of the Second Congo War and its aftermath.

In July 2007 three communities working under the FOCHI umbrella - Kiliba Farm of Hope School, the Bukavu Women's Trauma and Care Centre, and Nyangezi (seeking community radio for youth) formed a [http://www.ourcongo.net/documents/070801jointcommunities.doc Self-Empowering Network (SEN)] to define their approach to development and mutual help.

Chirezi is the Mashi word for "care giver."

External links

* [http://ourcongo.net/index.html Fondation Chirezi]
* [http://womenof.ourcongo.net/ "Women of Our Congo"]


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