OCHA Situation Report
Burundi
6 - 13 May 2007


Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

ACTIVITIES AND UPDATES

Health UN agencies support the Government of Burundi against maternal
and neonatal tetanus: The first round of the tetanus immunization
campaign which reached 838,098 women aged between 12 and 45 years, took
place from the 7th to 11th of May. Provinces covered include Bujumbura
Rural, Bururi, Cibitoke, Gitega, Kirundo, Muramvya and Ruyigi which were
targeted as high risk areas. This vaccination campaign was completed
thanks to the financial and technical support of UNICEF, WHO and all
partners operating in said provinces. The second round will be conducted
from the 11th to 15th June 2007.

World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day celebrated in Burundi: the
Burundian Red Cross society commemorated May 8th together with other
partners. This year's theme is "Together for humanity". Humanitarian
activities were organized throughout the country. In Bujumbura Mairie,
the Burundian Red Cross Society distributed non food items to vulnerable
persons in the central jail of Mpimba and to sick persons in the
national health facility of Prince Regent Charles and the Centre
hospitalo universitaire de Kamenge. This assistance which composed of
jerry cans, soap, blankets and clothes was distributed to 168 prisoners
including 63 women and 105 children, detained in the central jail of
Mpimba. An exhibition of the International Red Cross Red Crescent
Movement was also held in Bujumbura Mairie, where the movement's
humanitarian principles were disseminated.

Food security, rehabilitation of livestock: During the week under
review, FAO/Emergency Rehabilitation and Coordination unit (ERCU)
provided 891 goats to 297 vulnerable families (three goats per family)
majority of whom were returnees in the communes of Bugendana and Itaba
in the province of Gitega. In addition to the vulnerability criteria,
beneficiaries must have access to land property, own a field of fodder
crops and commit to stable rearing. Furthermore, they have to engage in
the community solidarity chain which consists of giving the three first
born kids to another community member who meets the above mentioned
criteria. To this end, an agreement is signed between the beneficiary
and FAO/ERCU, witnessed by the provincial head of agriculture and
livestock and the veterinary medical officer. This activity falls under
the livestock rehabilitation programme that FAO/ERCU started in 2005.

For more information: E-mail: ocha-burundi@un.org,
  Tel: +257 22 205000 Ext. 5542

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