{"id":4274,"date":"2015-03-11T06:53:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T03:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ajan.africa\/rwanda-burundi-province-rwb\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T06:53:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T03:53:17","slug":"rwanda-burundi-province-rwb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/fr\/rwanda-burundi-province-rwb\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda-Burundi Province (RWB)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe are a people who want to live!\u201d \u2013 This is the motto of the Service Yezu Mwiza<\/em> (SYM \u2013 \u2018Good Jesus\u2019 in Kirundi), a comprehensive AIDS programme run by the Jesuit region of Rwanda-Burundi. Based in Bujumbura and run by Fr D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Yamuremye SJ, SYM reaches people with HIV, their families and orphans in inaccessible rural parishes around the capital.<\/p>\n

Also in Bujumbura, the Lyc\u00e9e du Saint-Esprit<\/em> (Holy Spirit High School) has a long-running Stop-SIDA club that strives to make students aware of the realities of the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Rwanda, the Christian Life Community (CLC) in Kigali has made AIDS ministry as its shared apostolic mission: this means that, since 2005, members of CLC have been reaching out to people with HIV, above all \u2018accompanying\u2019 them through a pastoral approach. Theirs was a simple mandate: Go to people with HIV, visit them, offer them your friendship, and talk to them in such a way that preserves and renews their will to live<\/em>. However, when their experience revealed the urgent needs of people with HIV, the CLC group started work on a project to offer medical, psychosocial and material support too.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

As in other Provinces and Regions, individual Jesuits use their talents to make their contribution to the struggle against the pandemic. Thierry Manirambona SJ is a Burundian scholastic who writes beautiful poetry and prose to highlight the life, despair and hope of people with HIV.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe are a people who want to live!\u201d \u2013 This is the motto of the Service Yezu Mwiza (SYM \u2013 \u2018Good Jesus\u2019 in Kirundi), a comprehensive AIDS programme run by the Jesuit region of Rwanda-Burundi. Based in Bujumbura and run by Fr D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Yamuremye SJ, SYM reaches people with HIV,<\/p>\n

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