Explore Burundi: Songa. One of the most striking regions which also happens to be Gilbert Tuhabonye’s home village.
Explore Burundi: Rumonge
Explore Burundi is our series featuring cultural information and insights into the place where we work, and where you help us bring hope to so many. Rumonge, 75 km from Bujumbura
Explore Burundi: Bujumbura & Lake Tanganyika
Explore Burundi is our series featuring cultural information and insights into the place where we work, and where you help us bring hope to so many.
Bujumbura is the largest city, main port of Burundi, and former capital. Largely frozen in time due to more than a decade of conflict, there has been very little development within the city.
Explore Burundi: The Akazehe
Explore Burundi: Akazehe greetings are part of the rich oral tradition of Burundi, which relays history and stories through the spoken word, poetry, and song. The akazehe turns a simple daily greeting into an interwoven, call and response musical form. It has a poetic quality, elevating a simple courtesy into an almost ceremonial act.
October 21: Joy, Faith and Forgiveness
October 21st, 1993. A date that will forever be etched into the mind and heart of Gilbert Tuhabonye. Twenty-seven years ago, Gilbert escaped something that none of us could ever fathom: genocide.
It’s rather easy for us to walk into and out of each day without ever thinking how much of a gift and a privilege and a blessing it is to live this life.
Books We Love About Clean Water: For Readers Of All Ages
Karen Liu (MLIS) a Librarian and longtime friend of the Gazelle Foundation put together lists of books for young readers and adult readers to explore clean water. These stories are about all of us. They show that clean water is the key to life, how to find hope in despair, and how simple acts of generosity and philanthropy can transform what we believe about ourselves and others, and how we connect with each other.
