Disaster Response Burundi Project #61766

Protection of people against Lightning Killer

by Save life make difference

Project Report | Jun 25, 2024
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By OLIVIER C | ROJECT LEADER

SAVE LIFE MAKE DIFFERENCE

BUJUMBURA BURUNDI

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We encourage the people who help us to continue to support us in the fight against lightning which kills people every year in Burundi, following the lack of money we are waiting to start

Burundi: seven schoolchildren killed and 51 injured by lightning

Seven schoolchildren were killed by lightning on January 24 in the middle of class in southern Burundi and 51 were injured during the storm that hit the region. Is this a consequence of climate change? For several weeks, Burundi, which should be in the middle of a short dry season, has been hit by storms of rare violence, accompanied by lightning with devastating effects. A look back at the main incidents that took place during the last week.

It was a very intense and very brief storm, lasting around twenty minutes, which was the cause of the disaster, according to the administrator of the commune of Nyanza-Lac, located some 155 km south of the capital. Bujumbura. Lightning then struck the 7th year class of Gasange middle school where dozens of students were crowding. Seven schoolchildren were killed immediately and 51 others injured, explains Prudence Kabura.

On Tuesday, two people who were herding a herd and nine cows were struck by lightning in the commune of Gisuru. And two days earlier, four people were killed and nine others were injured, again by lightning, which this time struck a Pentecostal church, in the middle of Sunday services, in this same town of is from Burundi.

Since these cases have multiplied, some do not hesitate to exploit ancestral fears linked to a phenomenon considered supernatural in Burundi, especially since these storms now take place during the short dry season.

Some evangelist pastors do not hesitate to speak of divine punishment; in certain regions, the population attacks supposed sorcerers. The administrator of Nyanza-Lac calls on the Burundian government to simply install lightning rods in all schools in the country.

SAVE LIFE MAKE DIFFERENCE

23/06/2024

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Feb 21, 2024
Protection of people against Lightning Killer

By Olivier C | Project Leader

Save Life Make Difference 19/02/2024

Bujumbura -Burundi

savelifemakedifference@gmail.com

Subject : Project report Protection of people against Lightning Killer

In recent months, Burundi, in the middle of the rainy season, has been hit by storms of rare violence, accompanied by lightning with sometimes devastating effects. Last March, four people were killed by lightning in the commune of Buganda in the northwest of the country.

Six people were killed by lightning Thursday afternoon in a commune in northern Burundi, save Life Make Difference learned Friday from a local police source.

“The six people who died from lightning were in three houses located on Nyagatovu hill, six others were seriously injured,” the Provincial Police Commissioner in Ngozi, Edouard Mukoko, told the local newspaper Jimbere on Friday.

According to the Police Commissioner, the injured were transported “to the Mashitsi Health Center”, near the scene of the tragedy.

In recent months, Burundi, in the middle of the rainy season, has been hit by storms of rare violence, accompanied by lightning with sometimes devastating effects.

Last March, four people were killed by lightning in the commune of Buganda in the northwest of the country.

Disasters linked to climatic hazards are, moreover, a national concern in Burundi.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), floods, landslides and other disasters affected 13 of Burundi's 18 provinces between October 2019 and October 2020.

at the beginning of the programming of the save life make difference project wanted to mount anti-lightning antennas in some locality inside the country, Despite the lack of money to be able to set up some example, we are still in the past, once we have money necessary we will launch our projects because it is a project for the protection of the population in difficulty

Save Life Make diffrence

Bujumbura 19/02/2024

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