Education

Burundi

Knowledge Creation and Sharing

  • under IAFS-I, Bharat offered eight Vocational Training Centers (VTCs); one each to the eight RECs. Burundi was nominated as one of the countries to host the VTC. The centre was inaugurated in December 2016. It imparts vocational training to people from the region to enable them to be gainfully employed or become entrepreneurs.
  • A tele-medicine centre and a tele-education centre were set up in Bujumbura in 2010 under the first phase of Pan-African E- Network Project. The project aims to provide quality and real-time medical care and education from Bharat at a fraction of cost.

Grants & Concessional Finance

Gift of 100,000 NCERT text books was handed over to the Education Ministry of Burundi in March 2020.