Saturday, May 28, 2011

Community Work

Every Saturday morning from 7 am to 10 am, Burundians get together as members of the community, they undertake road maintenance, garbage collection and other infrastructural needs for specific neighborhoods, cycling through an area.

Today, the three other students, two Burundian employees of Flemish Investment and myself went to help out how we could. Today's task was widening a road and filling washed away sediment using the dirt removed to widen the road. We got to meet the new Police Commissioner, Local Administrator and Minister of Health.

What a great way to initiate stewardship of the land. I am so glad I got to be a part of this initiative and hope to continue helping when I can.

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