{"id":1890,"date":"2014-10-15T07:30:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T06:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2016-07-18T17:12:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T17:12:15","slug":"lack-of-water-and-housing-in-carama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/lack-of-water-and-housing-in-carama\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of water and housing in Carama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>People at the Carama site, one of the quarters in the North of Bujumbura, state that their living conditions are deplorable. They need support and a new place to live.<\/strong>&#8211;<em>By Yves Didier Irakoze<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1893\" style=\"width: 351px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Carama.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1893\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1893 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Carama.jpg\" alt=\"Life inside the tents at the Carama site \u00a9Iwacu\" width=\"341\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Carama.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Carama-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Life inside the tents at the Carama site \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the site, small houses built from canvas are all everywhere. They are too small to hold the families and their belongings.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are with 324 families and we find shelter in seven sheds. Those who were given mats sold them in order to get money for food\u201d, according to Jean Marie Niyonzima living on the site.<br \/>\nHe goes on saying that the rains of two weeks ago made things worse. \u201cIt destroyed our tents and some of those who shelter inside were obliged to sleep in mud\u201d, he says sadly.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of clean water is a major problem. There are only two taps for over three hundred families. Another problem that we have, says R\u00e9novat Ndindurwaha, another resident is the toilets that are often full.<br \/>\nIsa\u00ef Ntakirutimana who also lives in Carama site indicates that they have a big problem concerning their toilets. \u201cOur toilets are small. When it rains, they become full and overflow.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe now have five patients that are suffering from cholera who are at the hospital. But since the problems remain, more cases will be recorded soon\u201d, Ndindurwaha points out.<br \/>\nLegend: Life inside the tents at the Carama site<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People at the Carama site, one of the quarters in the North of Bujumbura, state that their living conditions are deplorable. They need support and a new place to live.&#8211;By Yves Didier Irakoze At the site, small houses built from canvas are all everywhere. They are too small to hold the families and their belongings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[108,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}