GITEGA YOUTH CENTRE

Inaugurated at the end of 2011, this centre is the result of fruitful collaboration between the municipal administration of Gitega, the Burundian Ministry of Youth and Sports and the international Peace and Sport organization. The aim is to supervise young people, school leavers or school leavers, by offering them sports and cultural activities, the educational virtues of sport being put at the service of the integration of the least favoured.

The house in which the centre is located, near the Olympia on the road to Karuzi and Muyinga, is one of the most stylish in Burundi. Built in the mid s in a modernist genre reminiscent of Le Corbusier, all in geometry, cut corners and piles, it first belonged to an Asian shopkeeper in Gitega and became a luxury hotel before falling into ruins. We can therefore only welcome the aid provided by the European Union for the successful rehabilitation of this beautiful architectural heritage (around 150 000 €).