Meet Jodike Bimenyimana - The Child SPC Sponsors through World Vision

Jodike lives with his parents and one sister. His parents struggle to provide for the family. His father is a farm laborer and his mother is a farm laborer. Despite their efforts, it is difficult to meet the family's needs.

Jodike

• Boy, age 4
• Birthday - December 4
• Speaks Kirundi
• Butezi Community Engagement and Sponsorship, Burundi
• My favorite hobby is playing doctor
• My favorite subject is None

Jodike's story

Jodike lives with his parents and 1 sister. His parents struggle to provide for the family. His father is a farm laborer and his mother is a farm laborer. Despite their efforts, it is difficult to meet the family's needs.

Jodike is growing up in an agricultural area in eastern Burundi. Though people mainly try to earn a living by raising livestock or farming crops like bananas and maize, most farmers lack training and resources to improve their production, making it difficult to produce enough to eat and sell. More than half of kids under 5 aren’t developing at healthy rates because they’re not getting enough nutritious food. Families also lack access to clean water and latrines, and children suffer from preventable waterborne illnesses without proper sanitation. People have few opportunities to get healthcare, nutrition information, or medicine. Parents don’t prioritize education, and they have low awareness of how vital it is to breaking the cycle of poverty. Too many children must drop out to help make ends meet at home, and those who do stay in school face overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated buildings without infrastructure like running water. Family structures aren’t strong, and kids aren’t well-protected from violence or abuse, even at home.

Jodike is not in school at this time because the child is still too young. He helps at home by being good. He likes to play pretend doctor. He is in satisfactory health.

Your sponsorship commitment will help Jodike and his family get better access to resources so they can lift themselves out of poverty. Parents will receive training and tools to improve their farming, and they’ll be able to feed their children more healthy food. Families will be equipped to build latrines and learn healthy hygiene behaviors to reduce illness. As parents and community leaders understand the importance of education, kids will be supported to pursue their studies, and classrooms will be better set up to help them succeed. Through community advocacy networks, people will gain skills to protect children from harm and exploitation.

The needs in Butezi, Burundi

Butezi is an agricultural area in eastern Burundi. Though people mainly try to earn a living by raising livestock or farming crops like bananas and maize, most farmers lack training and resources to improve their production, making it difficult to produce enough to eat and sell. Parents can’t provide well for their children: More than half of kids under 5 aren’t developing at healthy rates because they’re not getting enough nutritious food. Families also lack access to clean water and latrines, and children suffer from preventable waterborne illnesses without proper sanitation. People have few opportunities to get healthcare, nutrition information, or medicine. For families struggling just to feed their kids, education is often too costly. Parents also don’t prioritize education, and they have low awareness of how vital it is to breaking the cycle of poverty. Too many children must drop out to help make ends meet at home, and those who do stay in school face overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated buildings without infrastructure like running water. People don’t have many options to earn an income, especially without an education. Family structures aren’t strong, and kids aren’t well-protected from violence or abuse, even at home.

Community Progress

This community is in Phase 1.

Phase 1: Plan

We start by building relationships with local leaders and community members. The community identifies their greatest challenges and develops an action plan. The community nominates vulnerable children for sponsorship.

Community Photographs

From the community manager:

Before World Vision intervention with desks to our school, one desk was shared at least by four pupils, which prevented us to perform well as we were sitting badly. Now, thanks to World Vision support, pupils at our school are sitting well as a result we study comfortably and we are performing well.

From the community manager:

World Vision is contributing significantly in education sector through different activities among them reading camps. The latter provides children with environment for rehearsing the lessons learnt at school. 

From the community manager:

Before being trained on modern agricultural techniques and supported with agricultural inputs, I used to practice traditional farming techniques, which caused our low production. 

From the community manager:

Before World Vision intervention of building two blocks of latrines at our school, we had few and unimproved latrines, therefore had to queue up a long time. Some children preferred to use open defecation due to the hygienic status of the latrines we had.

From the community manager:

Before World Vision supported us with iron sheets, the roof of our house was made with grasses. Consequently, when it rains, it poured inside and wet everything in the house. Our children were often sick of pneumonia. Thanks to World Vision’s support, our house’s roofing is now good; children sleep...