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country directory index developing country focus - burundi |
Use this resource page to learn more about what we are doing in Burundi, and how you can help us meet spiritual and physical hungers …
Burundi is an interior resource-poor country with an underdeveloped manufacturing sector. The economy is predominantly agricultural with more than 90% of the population dependent on subsistence agriculture.
An ethnic-based war that began in 1993 and lasted for over a decade resulted in more than 200,000 deaths, forced more than 48,000 refugees into Tanzania, and displaced 140,000 others internally. Only one in two children go to school, and approximately one in 10 adults have HIV/AIDS. Food, medicine, and electricity remain in short supply. Political stability and the end of the civil war have improved aid flows and economic activity has increased, but underlying weaknesses - a high poverty rate, poor education rates, a weak legal system, and low administrative capacity - risk undermining planned economic reforms.
Food for the Hungry began an initial work program in Burundi in March 2006.
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