My name is Eric Niragira. Burundian with a degree in Management, I am the founding President of the training center for development of ex-combatants. I took part in the war in our country, Burundi. During this period many innocent people were killed and women raped. After combat, I continued my studies and created CEDAC in order to share experiences with other ex-combatants, and analyze together how we can prevent them in the future and say “Never again.” Briefly, my commitment was to show them that we can promote change by using our own contribution through peace consolidation and development program. We sensitize people in putting back small arms and taking part in their collection. Many collection operations of small arms have taken place in Burundi since 2005. The second program is to fight poverty by the promotion of micro-projects among community members, with donor support. So far we have 25,000 members coming from various armed movements. As Vice President of Member Burundian Vision, an NGO working in Burundi, and member of the Executive Committee of World Border Organization, I campaign for a better world and I welcome help from everyone who wants to join us in this initiative of reconstruction of our world.

For more information about my work, check out my blog at http://ericniragira.blogspot.com/

November 18, 2009, 3:12pm   Comments