Restoration Burundi works with repatriated vulnerable Burundian families and refugees returning to Burundi with absolutely nothing after years of exile. The cards were distributed to these families and individuals who live in extreme poverty, who would otherwise have no access to even the most basic health care, by Great Lakes Outreach PArtner, ‘Restoration Burundi’.
Franciscan Aid were able to support ‘Restoration Burundi’, by sending funds used to purchase 1000 Burundian health insurance cards. (Individual cards cost £2 each) by Great Lakes Outreach Partner ‘Restoration Burundi’. These health insurance cards give the holder access to health and medical care, including consultations, treatment and medication. Without the card, health care is unaffordable and inaccessible.
Restoration Burundi reported: ‘Health insurance cards were given to families in the Busoni and Bugabira communes in Kirundo province, and Rugombo commune in Cibitoke province. The main target beneficiaries were those aged 60 or over, widows, single mothers, repatriated families and other marginalized people. Though the Government has launched a system of medical insurance cards to help people who are not workers of public services, these families live in such extreme poverty, they are completely unable to afford the 5000f Health Insurance card. So many children are still succumbing to malaria and other illnesses due to lack of access to healthcare as their families do not have the financial means. Their daily earnings are insufficient even to feed their families. Through this donation, 5000 people have been given access to health care and numerous lives have been saved’.
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