From the heart of Burundi, the BTI Chronicle shares stories from our programs, insights from our research, and field notes from our team — all with the goal of amplifying the voices and experiences of Burundian youth.
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Dispatch #01 · Bujumbura · April 2025
We held our first orientation session for Cohort 2 of the BTI Academy last week. Forty-three young people showed up. We had chairs for forty. The overflow stood. Nobody left. That is not a logistical detail — it is a signal.
Dispatch #02 · Gitega · March 2025
A secondary school teacher in Gitega contacted us to refer four students she described as "too intelligent to lose." All four are now enrolled in the Sponsorship Fund. This is how movements grow — not through campaigns, but through people who believe enough to act.
Dispatch #03 · Bujumbura · February 2025
Cohort 1 presented their ventures last month. One pitched a solar-powered poultry unit. Another a mobile tailoring service. A third mapped three underserved supply chain gaps in the cassava market. None of them had called themselves entrepreneurs six months ago.
Dispatch #04 · Remote · January 2025
One of our Cohort 1 graduates shut down his first business last month. He arrived at his mentor's office not with defeat, but with a notebook full of observations about why it failed. BTI does not promise success — we promise the capacity to learn from failure faster than the next person.
Dispatch #05 · Bujumbura · December 2024
A mother called to say her daughter had "come back." Not about the business — about the person who used to sit in silence now explaining things at the dinner table, drawing diagrams on napkins. Behavioral transformation is not a metric we can report in a spreadsheet. But it is perhaps our most significant outcome.
Dispatch #06 · Editorial · November 2024
Too many development organizations produce annual reports full of aggregate numbers and stock photography. The BTI Chronicle is something different: an honest, ongoing record of what it looks like to work at the frontier of change in Burundi — the breakthroughs, the setbacks, the small moments that don't fit in a data table.
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