http://www.aglionline.org or contact Dawn@aglionline.org
Location: Kamenge, Burundi - On the outskirts of Bujumbura
Objective: The Workcamp Peace Team will build additional rooms for the clinic which primarily serves HIV positive women and children. Read more about the FWA at http://aglionline.org/Program/fwa.htm.
Housing: Workcampers will stay in an apartment at the Friends Center in downtown Bujumbura.
Location: Lubao, in western Kenya near Kakamega
Objective: The Workcamp Peace Team will continue building at the Friends Peace Centre-Lubao. Learn more about the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) in Kenya at http://aglionline.org/sub/avp.htm and http://aglionline.org/PDF/Winter%202007.pdf.
Housing: Workcampers will live at the Peace Centre.
Location: Lugari District in western Kenya between the town of Eldoret and Mt. Elgon
Objective: The Workcamp Peace Team will build simple houses for vulnerable people whose homes were destroyed during the violence at the beginning of 2008. (See above for more information.)
Housing: Workcampers will live with Kenyan host families
Host Partner: Gisenyi Friends Meeting
Location: Gisenyi, Rwanda. On the northern edge of Lake Kivu, west of Kigali.
Objective: The Workcamp Peace Team will continue construction of Gisenyi Friends Peace Center. This is the third year for this project. Gisenyi is on Lake Kivu on the border with Congo. Peace work there includes Rwandans and Congolese.
Housing: Workcampers will live with Rwandan host families.
Host Partner: Bududa Vocational Institute & Children of Peace - See http://bviuganda.org/index.htm
Location: Bududa, Uganda about 20 miles north of Mbale on the slopes of Mount Elgon
Objective: Specifics of the work are “under construction”; stay tuned or email Dawn for updates.
Housing: Workcampers will live with Ugandan host families.