Support for individual activities
The APS Association is based in Bujumbura, Burundi; it was founded by Marie Claire Gegera, a Burundian Nurse who has been living and working in Genoa for several years, and who was orphaned at a very young age by both her parents, who died during the civil war that bloodied the country for many years. In 2005, in a refugee camp in Rwanda, she met her mother’s murderer who, before dying, asked her to forgive him. From these experiences, she became convinced of the need to aid those in need with the motto “Charity on the move“. The Association carries out food prevention campaigns in the villages of Burundi, indicating the diets and nutrition needed to prevent malnutrition diseases, so common and serious in the poorest sections of the population. It also deals with providing the poorest families with free basic health care, since health care is paid for and many people cannot access it because they do not have money. The other project concerns the support of individual activities through the donation of a cow to e
very poor family that requests it, with the modalities and requirements identified by the Association. The requirements for families to have the right to have a cow are essentially linked to the number of children of each woman, to the fact that the woman is a widow or otherwise alone, the tenacity shown in improving their social situation (schooling of children, job search, etc.), and are set by APS Burundi. The fundamental rule to be respected is that each family that receives a cow as a gift, must in turn give the first calf, if female, to another family selected by the association; if it is a male, it will be sold and the proceeds reinvested in the purchase of other cows, so the family must donate the next calf. From this moment, all the calves that will be born later will remain the property of the family, which will thus have milk, labour, meat for their needs.
Published on December 29, 2019
Piero Petricca
