{"id":286,"date":"2013-08-29T07:51:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T06:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=286"},"modified":"2013-08-29T07:51:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T06:51:43","slug":"a-good-samaritan-to-vulnerable-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/a-good-samaritan-to-vulnerable-children\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Samaritan to vulnerable children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apart from the school equipments they get, they are also educated and mobilized to help in some activities during holidays. Those are vulnerable children from Gihosha who are supported by Gihosha St Jean Baptist<\/strong> Parish<\/strong>–Yves Didier Irakoze<\/em>
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Father Tavernier No\u00ebl with vulnerable children\u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

Around 20 adolescents from Gihosha have gathered at St Jean Baptist Parish of Gihosha to take part in manual activities to support the parish as this latter helps them, too.
\nAccording to Father Tavernier No\u00ebl, the Gihosha Parish Priest, those vulnerable children spend two days doing hand jobs like transporting bricks or stones, cleaning the ground and undertaking other various physical activities.
\n\u201cThose young children have been here for some activities for the Parish in order to support it. Meanwhile, they become aware that getting something to eat, they have to work hard. So, if the Parish makes some effort to assist them in their education, they have to bring their support to it,\u201d points out Father Tavernier.
\nHe adds that this mobilization was also a way to prepare the event of a priestly ordination of Deacon Elys\u00e9e Niyokindi on 31st August 2013 at this Parish, and also prepare the ground where a big church will be built in the near future.
\nThe Parish as a second parent
\n\u201cThose children had a problem of getting even the required contribution for building the fundamental school and we have paid for them. We have also helped those who couldn\u2019t get their marks\u2019 school report scripts because they owe something to their respective schools,\u201d highlights Father Tavernier.
\nHe goes on saying that they have a network of Caritas, a Catholic NGO with which they work hand in hand to help vulnerable people.
\n\u201cWith Caritas, we assist some projects that can help those vulnerable people to fight against poverty and precariousness,\u201d he declares.
\nHe says that on Christmas Day, the parish is always busy, meeting those vulnerable children\u2019s parents to show them they are the Parish target in terms of assistance; they are not isolated but integrated people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to educate them\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Father Tavernier wishes that this small gesture of good will from Christians\u2019 generosity could teach them to become well-educated youth growing up with that idea of generosity in a country marked by the sense of mutual assistance and solidarity.
\nHe states that they educate them to work hard and know that they have no right to fail at school except when they get sick or die.
\n\u201cOur main condition to give copybooks to any vulnerable child is that he\/she has to succeed next year,\u201d he concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apart from the school equipments they get, they are also educated and mobilized to help in some activities during holidays. Those are vulnerable children from Gihosha who are supported by Gihosha St Jean Baptist Parish–Yves Didier Irakoze Around 20 adolescents from Gihosha have gathered at St Jean Baptist Parish of Gihosha to take part in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[279,634],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"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=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}