GREAT LAKES HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING

CHIREZI FOUNDATION

Protect Women, Protect Children, Protect the Nation

  • Welcome to Chirezifoundation.org, a great lakes human rights monitor

    Chirezi Foundation is a local non governmental organisation established in the African Great Lakes Region by Floribert Kazingufu Kasirusiru. The core objective of FOCHI is to build a campaign for a non-killing society in the Great Lakes Region - eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)  which has suffered both the Second Congo War and terrible waves of genocide in both Rwanda and Burundi.   Since the early 1990s the African Great Lakes region – defined here as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania – has been convulsed by genocide, civil wars, inter-state conflict and flawed democratic transitions. With UN-sponsored peace processes underway in DRC and Burundi .

  • COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION OF EX COMBATTANTS IN DR CONGO - KILIBA
    FORGETTING THE EXERCISE OF ARM SHOOTING BY THE EXERCISE OF BRICK MAKING TO EARN A PLACE IN THE COMMUNITY
  • Discover our activities

    FOCHI has so far conducted seminars of ministers of religion and teachers, to create awareness and shift entrenched attitudes. FOCHI, with priority concern for women and children, is building local projects. The first is Farm of Hope School for orphans and children of single parent families at Kiliba, DRC, a border crossing town on the Ruzizi River, near the Burundi capital of Bujumbura. FOCHI's second project is a Women's Trauma and Care Centre in Bukavu, the capital of Sud-Kivu Province in the DRC, managed by Women Against Violence. In July 2007 three communities working under the FOCHI umbrella - Kiliba Farm of Hope School, the Bukavu Women's Trauma and Care Centre, and Nyangezi (seeking community radio for youth) formed a Self-Empowering Network (SEN) to define their approach to development and mutual help.

  • BARAZA
    Fondation Chirezi and some organizations in Burundi and East DR Congo are working in peacebuilding and conflict prevention and resolution. With students and local communities we are experiencing a renewed system of conflict prevention/resolution/transformation thanks to the structure of peace called Baraza. Baraza is a Swahili word meaning Gathering.

  • Why BARAZA?
    This structure is imported from our ancestors system of gathering people under a big tree of the village to attend their problems and conflicts. It was a place where everyone was coming to contribute for the advancement of their community. A decision which was taken during hearings was engaging everyone and whoever did not accept the verdict was contracting the whole village and was seen as an outsider.  This was also an alternative system of equitable justice were poor and rich were under one umbrella: the community.


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Women and Children are the first victims of war and conflicts in DR Congo.

Fondation Chirezi is dedicated to provide health and education services to orphan children and economic empowerment to women especially those victims of sexual violence.

Also, through community Baraza and Community Peace courts, we we offer them competences to resolve peacefully their conflicts and human rights abuses and to participate in monitoring of reconstruction development projects to the satisfaction donors, implementing agencies and beneficiaries against corruption and lack of transparency.

FOCHI is now active in community reintegration of ex combattants by giving them opportunities to do livelihood activities such as brick making, soap making, agriculture in order to build durable peace, stop community violences, saving lives and healing their own communities. If we are helping these children, women and communities, you can also join us and act now !

Remember, with three dollars a month, you can provide quality education to an orphan, a vulnerable children or an ex child soldier.
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With Peace Direct, FOCHI promote sustainable peace in local communities, through the creation of the Baraza.

 

Main activities:

-Resolutions of conflicts;

-The creation of 3 new baraza

Gender ; Women's Baraza
-Organise women in the community  activities;
-Prepare women for their  self empowment;
-Train women in Human Rights;
-Give opportinity to women to express to the radio.

Chirezi Foundation works with TIRI: Integrity in Action in promoting integrity and transparency in the implementation of community projects.

 

Main activities:

-Monitoring of community projects;

-Involvement of women in community activities;

-Use of the Radio Club in monitoring.