GITEGA, 28 August (ABP) – The First Lady of Burundi, Mrs. Angeline Ndayishimiye, showed two members of the American diaspora around the work carried out by the Fondation Bonne Action Umugiraneza (FBAU), for which she is the legal representative.
In the medical sector, they visited projects in the province of Gitega (in the center of the country).
First, the First Lady of Burundi took her guests to the urban center of Gitega, in the commune and province of Gitega (in the center of the country), which houses the medical center for the treatment of obstetric fistulas. The center is housed within the Gitega hospital. Burundi’s First Lady took the opportunity to express her sympathy to a little girl who was born with the condition and is hospitalized at the center. Mrs. Angeline Ndayishimiye then took her guests to the commune of Giheta in the same province, where FBAU’s head office is located. This includes a hospital that is already operational, as well as related infrastructure that is currently under construction. The hospital is equipped with an intelligent classroom, enabling the skills of nursing staff to be improved through the exchange of professional experience between doctors from the hospital and those from abroad.
At the end of a meeting with the two members of the American diaspora and FBAU executives, the First Lady of Burundi gave an interview to the press in which she expressed her thanks to those personalities for their initiative in visiting the works of FBAU.
Given that those personalities live outside their country because of the socio-political crisis of 1972, Mrs. Angeline Ndayishimiye reassured them that peace and security currently reign in Burundi. She urged them to raise the awareness of their fellow Burundians in exile in the USA, and to join the population in its march towards development. She asked them to invest in Burundi. Mr. Pascal Akimana, one of the two hosts, promised to ask Burundian-Americans living in the United States of America who are reluctant to set foot in their country because of the peddlers of bad language or false information on social networks that tarnish the image of Burundi, to dispel their fear and visit their country. He also promised to support the work of the Umugiraneza Good Action Foundation. To round off her tour, the First Lady took her guests to the Matongo hill on the Gihanga plateau, in the Ndava commune of Mwaro province, where there is a primary school also built by the FBAU.