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The FXB-ESSCA Village is a project that was launched in September 2009 by four ESSCA students in partnership with the FXB association. |
The objective of the students involved in this project was to collect €150,000 to create a "model FXB Village" in Rwanda. ESSCA would thereby been endowed with its own international solidarity development programme.
For more than a year now, a handful of ESSCA students has been working on a project that seems somewhat ambitious: the FXB-ESSCA Village. Today, the entire team is proud and pleased to announce that the FXB-ESSCA Village has become a reality! Indeed, the development programme is currently in place now in the Mont Kigali area of Rwanda. The recruitment and selection processes for the programme beneficiaries were successfully completed between October and November 2009. Local teams (a nurse, a logistics manager and a social worker) had the complex mission of selecting families as future beneficiaries of the programme.
At the end of November 2009, the final list of beneficiary families was established. Eighty families were selected to follow the three year activity programme. These three years are necessary to conduct a programme of the FXB type. These 80 families total 584 individuals (227 adults and 357 chlidren). There are 140 orphans, 33 of whom have lost both parents. These vulnerable families were specifically selected as they care for a large number of AIDS orphans and children at risk.
Among these 80 families, 39 have both parents, 36 are headed by widows and five by orphans (the eldest is responsible for the household).
In terms of schooling, 212 children were registered in primary school and 91 in secondary school. Fifty-four children are not yet of schooling age or are waiting for acceptance in internship programmes.
Twenty-seven individuals are HIV positive, 15 of whom are currently under ARV treatment and 12 receive bactrim for prophylaxis.
| The FXB-ESSCA Village is a global, participative process that will allow these 80 families to sustainably free themselves of poverty within three years, while becoming full players in the project thanks to the development of an activity that generates income. |
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This approach guarantees the programme will be sustainable over the long term. It favours beneficiaries acquiring knowledge and skills. During this phase, they come to understand they are responsible for acquiring the basics that will help them develop economic and social capital. Over the first few months, to help beneficiaries succeed in this phase, FXB provides the assistance they need to recover some energy and a more satisfactory state of health.
Medical, nutritional, scholastic and psychosocial support helps improve the beneficiaries' physical, intellectual and psychological capacities. They can then fully dedicate themselves to their activities (agriculture, trade, sewing, etc.) without having to worry about their current basic needs. Thus strengthened, the families can then take care of the children at risk and orphans in their community by providing them with food, appropriate medical care (including the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS), and access to education and to a family environment that favours their development.
ESSCA cares deeply about human and social values. This village brings to reality its values in the form of a collective project.
Starting in the fall of 2010, a new subject entitled ESR has been put in place for 1A and 2A. In parallel to academic classes, students can choose a concrete project among a range of choices. The FXB-ESSCA Village is one of these projects. Students who select it will be able to give a real boost to the project by helping to finance the second and third years and ensure the continued success of the project!
We are counting on every one of you.
Louis Sarrauste de Menthière, Master 1 Student
Contacts :
Nicolas Macabéo : 06.88.43.86.34
nicolas.macabeo@essca.eu
Géraud Loustalan : 06.70.31.71.06
geraud.loustalan@essca.eu
