{"id":13703,"date":"2019-09-06T17:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=13703"},"modified":"2019-09-06T17:18:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:18:54","slug":"three-hundred-families-to-be-sent-back-to-provinces-of-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/three-hundred-families-to-be-sent-back-to-provinces-of-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"Three hundred families to be sent back to provinces of origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 300 families will be sent back to their localities of origin from Bujumbura city. \u201cFor the first round, we have sent back 100 families and others will follow,\u201d said F\u00e9lix Ngendabanyikwa, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Human Rights, Gender and Social Affairs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13691\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13691\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13691\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/REINTEGRATION.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/REINTEGRATION.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/REINTEGRATION-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/REINTEGRATION-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/REINTEGRATION-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These families are transported to their provinces of origin in \u201cHiace&#8221; type vehicles from \u201cGare du Nord\u201d parking<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Those families have received a package made of two hoes, 25kg of rice and an amount of BIF 50,000 which will help them to integrate local associations.<\/p>\n<p>Those families made of women, children and young people were sheltered in different neighborhoods of the economic capital Bujumbura.<br \/>\nSome of them were beggars and others street vendors. \u201cWe are tired of living in Bujumbura city. Life is very hard,\u201d says Ancille Mvukabanka, a mother of two kids aged 45.<\/p>\n<p>She says she has been living in Bujumbura for ten years. She says she started begging when she lost her husband. \u201cI hope I will find my plots of land in my locality of origin and grow crops\u201d, she adds.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9phine Hatungimana is a widow from Ngozi province. She says she has been living in Bujumbura for 12 years as a street vendor. \u201cAs the police are always chasing after us, it was not easy to feed three children as a street vendor and widow,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry for Human Rights, Gender and social Affairs, works in close collaboration with the local administration to integrate those families.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have focal agents in the country. When there are problems, they report them so that we find solutions\u201d, says an agent of the ministry found on the spot. He adds that the registration of those families was voluntary. \u201cWe didn\u2019t force anyone to return to their locality of origin. We only sensitize them,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 300 families will be sent back to their localities of origin from Bujumbura city. \u201cFor the first round, we have sent back 100 families and others will follow,\u201d said F\u00e9lix Ngendabanyikwa, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Human Rights, Gender and Social Affairs. 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