{"id":14146,"date":"2019-10-16T06:29:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T06:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14146"},"modified":"2019-10-17T15:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T15:43:52","slug":"burundian-rural-women-confronted-with-several-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundian-rural-women-confronted-with-several-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundian rural women confronted with several problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the framework of the celebration of the International Day of Rural Women, Burundian women living in Muyira locality in Kanyosha municipality of Bujumbura province say poverty in households and lack of capital to run their own businesses are among the many problems they are faced with in their daily lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A woman cultivating in Muyira locality in Bujumbura province<\/p><\/div>\n

At 10 a.m. in Muyira locality, Esp\u00e9rance Bampanzamaso, a thirty five-year-old widow, carries a basket full of avocadoes and a child on her back. On her way to Bujumbura city to sell the fruits alongside her son, she looks tired.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a widow and mother of eight, it is very difficult to take care of my children,\u201d she says, adding that she can hardly get food, clothes and school materials for all her children.
\nMrs. Bampanzamaso says her only income generating activity is selling avocadoes in Bujumbura city, a business with many challenges and risks as she puts it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am sometimes arrested, jailed by the police in Bujumbura city. My children are likely to die of hunger if I stop selling fruits in the city,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

This rural woman and head of the family also says her capital to run a business is very small. \u201cI do not have a plot of land to mortgage for a bank loan,\u201d she adds.
\nShe calls on the government of Burundi and whoever may help to provide her with a capital to grow her business to keep her family alive.<\/p>\n

In the same locality, two other women are growing cassava. They say rural women especially farmers encounter several problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have enough space to grow crops,\u201d says Valerie Ntamavukiro, a mother of nine children whose husband died in 2002, adding that she must rent a piece of land to cultivate, she adds.
\nThis sixty six-year-old woman says her house has been damaged. \u201cNeighbors helped me to build another one but I do not have money to buy metal sheets to cover it,\u201d she adds.
\nMrs. Ntamavukiro calls on the government of Burundi to build her a strong house and give her a plot of land where she can grow crops.<\/p>\n

\u201cPoverty is the main challenge I face in my daily life,\u201d says a pregnant woman.
\nThis mother of six adds that she can hardly feed her children while her husband is jobless. \u201cI work alone to satisfy the needs of the family,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

She also says she tried twice to use contraceptive methods to limit births in vain.
\nIn the context of the celebration of the international day of rural women, Martin Nivyabandi, Burundian Minister of Human Rights has said rural women play an important role in the development of the country.
\n\u201cThey have taken economic measures to develop themselves and the country while keeping the cultural values of the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The International Day of Rural Women which is celebrated on October 15 every year will be celebrated in Burundi on October 18 under the theme: \u201cSupport rural women’s access to sustainable infrastructure and social protection services\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the framework of the celebration of the International Day of Rural Women, Burundian women living in Muyira locality in Kanyosha municipality of Bujumbura province say poverty in households and lack of capital to run their own businesses are among the many problems they are faced with in their daily lives. At 10 a.m. in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,670],"tags":[735,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14148,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14146\/revisions\/14148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}