Marta per gli Altri

Burundi is one of the poorest Countries of the world. Geographically located in central Africa, right below the equator, Burundi is affected by the misfortunes and troubles typical of undeveloped countries such as starvation, diseases, poverty, illiteracy. Moreover there are still clear signs and damages from the civil war, ended about 10 years ago, which caused more than 300.000 casualties over a population of 6.000.000.

Located in Cibitoke province, north west area of Burundi, about 90 km from the country capital Bujumbura there is Masango.
It is not a proper town or village, Masango can be described as a meeting place for the Hutu population who lives on the hills within a distance of 20 km. In Masango these people can find some basic services such as school and medical. Aside from those buildings there is a church and few huts along a gravel road, which, during the rain season become a mud river.

For the purpose of offering further assistance to local people and specifically to kids and boys we have been proposed to contribute building a multi-purpose hall which is intended to host:

– Social and sport eventparticularly in favour of orphans;

– Medical educationfor youth particularly on transferrable diseases (AIDS);

– Entertainment and educational activities;

– Social-educational activities focused on promoting the value of peace, tolerance and freedom.

The multi-purpose room has not been built yet, however some material (such as bricks, stones and sand) have already been purchased. We have been asked to help on purchasing cement, doors, windows and metal plates for the roof so to complete the construction.

Marta who was very sensitive of child would have loved contributing to this project.

We estimate a budget of 7.000,00 Euro should be enough for completing this project.

2014 May 25th update:

With real pleasure we can announce the Masango project has started. Following a site inspection done in January 2014 by a volunteer who is an architect, we realized the budget estimation was not sufficient to cover the cost , so we funded and transferred EUR 10.000 in order to start the building activities. We can also rely on an additional Italian volunteer who is currently in Masango, planning to stay there until June 2014. He will monitor the work progress and let us know in case additional resources are needed.

A special thank and recognition to Luciano from London for his generous contribution which make this project happening in such a short time.

Here below an image of Masango as well as the plan view and a rendering of the new hall we are going to build.

The center of Masango village

Masango multi-pupose hall plan

Multi-purpose hall rendering

2014 July update:

Work in progress July 2014

2014 November 24th update:

With an additional EUR 5.000 funding we are going to complete the multi-purpose hall construction. The roof is done and the hall is next to be opened.

With respect to initial cost estimation we faced twice the expenses but we are very proud of the result and got the gratitude of the local people and the nuns who will manage the hall.

Here are the most recent images of the building.

Work in progress November 2014

January 2015

Thanks to all the contributors and people who worked on this project!!!!!!

If you are willing to make a donation specifically for this project please specify “Multi purpose hall Masango” as the causal on your bank transfer order.

This project has been completed and isn’ t running anymore