Category Archives: Cibitoke Project

Is Burundi calling YOU

By Ted Bosveld | Published August 28, 2010

Any one who wants to have a challenge????
Here is your chance.
Leave Nov 5th and return Nov 14th. Guaranteed to turn you life upside down in 1 week. And that is upside down for the better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cost of trip is $3000.00 airfares plus $500 on grounds

See what it feels like to put a smile on a child’s [...]

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Homes of Hope is now Open

By Ted Bosveld | Published May 18, 2010

I sit here not knowing how to start or how to put down into words what has been experienced in the last few days here in Burundi.
Saturday May 15th 2010 as a team of 8 ordinary people from Australia we visited the 1st village being constructed by Villages of Life in Cibitoke Burundi to assist [...]

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Amazing things continue to happen – one by one!

By Ted Bosveld | Published September 19, 2009

Work on site in Cibitoke continues albeit at a slow pace due to funds coming in slowly. As with all NGOs we to are affected by the Global slowdown. But the work still continues due to amazing people going out of their way to change this world we live in.
Villages of Life is here to [...]

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Houses ready for furniture and fences

By Ted Bosveld | Published June 13, 2009

In the next few week we will be starting with the final part of the construction stage part 1 getting the first 5 houses ready to be occupied. Euphrate, our site manager in Burundi, has priced up this final part of stage 1.
The cost of fencing is approx US$100 per metre which is about AUD$120 [...]

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To Burundi with Love (a container of gifts)

By Ted Bosveld | Published March 30, 2009

During the last few months of 2008 a container was filled with many many gifts and donations. These included clothing, shoes, blankets, bedding, mattresses, computers, sewing machines, cloth for sewing, medical supplies, boxes of cuddly teddy bears, etc.
The clothing made up the majority of the contents, which is the most needed.
It was a truly amazing [...]

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