GITEGA, April 8th (ABP) – On the eve of the celebration of the day dedicated to women affiliated to the ruling CNDD-FDD party, known as “AbakenyererarugambaDay”, women leaders from that party, accompanied by members of delegations from South Africa and Kenya, visited various places in the province of Gitega (the political capital and center of Burundi), a check on the site by ABP has revealed. The visit began at the mausoleum of the late president Pierre Nkurunziza and guide to patriotism in the Musinzira district in the urban centre of Gitega.
The president of the CNDD-FDD women’s league and members of the delegations laid wreaths of flowers on the mausoleum to honour his memory.
Afterwards, they visited Gitega Regional Hospital, where they offered food and non-food items to women hospitalised with obstetric fistulas at the Urumuri center housed in the hospital.
They then paid medical bills of 10,000,000BIF for eleven patients confined to the hospital because they were unable to pay. They also gave those patients a ticket to return to their respective families.
The president of the CNDD-FDD women’s league praised the charitable acts carried out by the women of the CNDD-FDD party, in implementing the party’s ideology. She said that the women’s league had assisted those women and patients regardless of their political, regional, religious or ethnic affiliation.
The day ended at the Gishora drummers’ sanctuary on Masasu village in the Kiriba zone in the Giheta commune, where the delegations explored the Burundian drum sanctuary and took the opportunity to discover some of the richness of Burundian culture while enjoying the rhythm of the drum.