Fondation chirezi

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Fondation Chirezi (FOCHI) is a local non-governmental organisation established in the African Great Lakes Region by Floribert Kazingufu Kasirusiru (Flory Zozo). The core objective of FOCHI is to build a campaign for a non-killing society in the Great Lakes Region - eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which has suffered the Second Congo War and Rwanda and Burundi both subjected to terrible waves of genocide.

"Since the early 1990s the African Great Lakes region – defined here as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania – has been convulsed by genocide, civil wars, inter-state conflict and flawed democratic transitions. With UN-sponsored peace processes underway in DRC and Burundi and projects of state and societal reconstruction apparently advancing in Rwanda and Uganda, there are hopes that the epoch of violence and exploitation in the African Great Lakes region is finally drawing to an end." So begins an October 2006 report by the British House of Commons Library

FOCHI is a local non-governmental initiative and has so far conducted seminars of ministers of religion and teachers, to create awareness and shift entrenched attitudes. FOCHI, with priority concern for women and children, also has established the Farm of Hope School for orphans and children of single parent families at Kiliba DRC, a border crossing town on the Ruzizi River, near the Burundi capital of Bujumbura. This project is being assisted by an online virtual community of neighbours established by Nabuur.

Chirezi is the Swahili word for care giver.