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A Country in East Africa 'Burundi'

This article is based on the circumstances at Burundi (I will never forget what I witnessed).

By Ali AkbarPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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We are in Burundi, which has been designated as the world's poorest country based on analytical reports from the World Bank and many other official organizations.

The nation, which has a population of around 12.5 million, has been renowned as the unhappiest country in the world for nearly every year in the past 62 years due to the extreme poverty of its citizens, who earn an average of only 180 dollars each year working.

Imagine that if you are fortunate enough to be able to work day and night, your monthly pay would only be $15, even though the country's unemployment rate is unknown.

Welcome to the world's poorest and unhappiest nation. When we landed at the only airport in the nation with an asphalt runway, Bujumbura International Airport, we were really astonished.

They were using the demo version of the operating system to avoid paying a fee at the scene of an accident that we spotted on the way to the hotel when we glanced at the information display.

The republic of Burundi, which is known as "the heart of Africa," is situated in the vast fertile valley where east Africa and the African great lakes converge. The country's land area is just 27 834 kilometers square.

Despite the fact that practically everyone is involved in agriculture, this terrain, which includes numerous hilly parts, is sadly insufficient to feed 12.5 million people; Burtombura, the largest city, has 380 thousand residents.

The first noticeable feature is the abundance of youngsters. The neighborhood kids are busy fishing. The population of the country is primarily under the age of 25, with 45 percent being under the age of 15. We are in the buttery district in the center.

There are kids spinning tires with sticks, playing board games with beer caps, creating toy vehicles out of plastic bottles, and just three percent of them are 65 or older.

And playing football with a hollow tire, according to United Nations data published ten years ago. At that time, only 7.6% of the population had access to electricity, therefore the average life expectancy was roughly 49 years.

Despite the fact that it is already 2021, the majority of people in this nation still do not own cellphones. Even the instructional film on flights depicts visuals of all technology.

We are in a rice field in Bitter, where farmers work to provide food for Bujumbura City. About 86 percent of the country is made up of rural areas like this one, and farming employs nearly 90 percent of the population as a whole. We are moving to see the typical farmer's home in the world's poorest nation.

where practically everyone is a farmer Let's go, everything is wonderful; there are people who are homeless and must get wet when it rains; we observe a youngster using the rainwater to take a shower; here is their home; there are eight people living in this one room.

It indicates that there are two parents and eight children, and that this is their bed. They just spread it out and use it as a sleeping surface; they also have another bed for kids.

What's his name and how old is John? He's 58. There are these old Eight children who belong to her. How much money does he make each month as a farmer, and what does he do now that he has gone to cabbages to gather his various items?

Thank you for your time. Dragging down On is trying to support his family on ten dollars per month, and all ten members of the family sleep on the floor in the same room without even having electricity in their homes. However, Jon's situation is still better than that of the majority of the other people we will soon see.

To Be Continued.....

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Ali Akbar

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