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Caisse Coopérative D'Epargne Et De Crédit Mutuel
''Caisse Coopérative d'Epargne et de Crédit Mutuel'' (Cooperative Savings and Mutual Credit Fund), or CECM, is a microfinance savings and loans bank serving low income people in Burundi. History The CECM was initiated in 1995 by the "Association pour la Promotion Economique de la Femmes" (APEF: Association for Economic Promotion of Women). It was approved by ministerial order no. 550/313/1995 of 4 September 1995. At first, CECM received funding from the Canadian NGO "Développement international Desjardins" (DID), but DID withdrew from Burundi in March 1996. CECM merged with the APEF in 1999. By the end of 2003, CECM had 16,876 members, 75% women and 25% men. CECM had opened two agencies, one next to Bujumbura Central Market and the other in Buyenzi. The organization was planning agencies in other peripheral districts of Bujumbura Mairie. As of 2007, priority was given to low-income women from the outlying districts of the city of Bujumbura. It operated mainly in Buju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirundi
Kirundi (), also known as Rundi, is a Bantu language and the national language of Burundi. It is mutually intelligible with Kinyarwanda, the national language of Rwanda, and the two form parts of the Rwanda-Rundi dialect continuum spoken in Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. Kirundi is natively spoken by the Hutu (including the Bakiga), Tutsi, Twa, and the Hima people; other related ethnicities have also adopted Kirundi as their mother tongue. Neighbouring dialects of Kirundi are mutually intelligible with Ha language, Ha, a language spoken in western Tanzania. Kirundi is one of the languages where Meeussen's rule, a rule describing a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages, is active. In 2020, the Rundi Academy was established to help standardize and promote Kirundi. Phonology Consonants Although the literature on Rundi agrees on 5 vowels, the number of consonants can vary anywhere from 19 to 26 consonants. The table below is compiled from a survey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
