The CRIB Orphanage started its activities during the 1993 war. ARM had already started its activities informally. It collected babies who were abandoned by their parents. This orphanage has taken in up to 117 orphaned children. Now it has 47 children, who remain in the orphanage, the others having had adoptive parents inside or outside the country. The activities of this orphanage are carried out in Bujumbura Mairie with the support of donations from some churches in England through Mrs Christine Chapman, who has been in charge of this orphanage since 1993. It has a permanent national staff of 8 people, 1 expatriate and 2 volunteers. Other expatriate volunteers often assist for short periods (less than 6 months). But the recent death in 2021 of Christine Chapman may have a negative impact on the fundraising for this orphanage for which she had given so much for its creation and growth.

started its activities in April 2011 in Gitega with funding from Emerge Proverty Free. It started by taking in street children by hosting them in a transitional reception centre. The children were accommodated, fed, schooled and the older ones were taught trades. The project has already taken in 160 children, including 60 girls under 17. With the 2015 crisis, the project changed its modus operandi. ARM Burundi had to remove all these children from the centre. The supervisors looked for host families to take care of the indigent children. Fortunately, all these children were reintegrated and continue to be monitored and supervised by ARM. CC4 Africa-Canada has taken over the support and monitoring of these children. ARM-Burundi also relies on the contributions of other income-generating projects to continue the care of these destitute children.

ARM has continued the educational follow-up at home and at school, and provides health care, school materials, school fees, uniforms, as well as other basic needs such as shoes, food (maize flour), etc.

This project started its activities in January 2017 in GITEGA province with funding from TEAM HOPE Ireland. This project welcomes children aged 2-6 years in this centre during the day to allow parents to go about their daily activities. These children are picked up at 3pm by their parents. Initially, all the children admitted to the centre were severely malnourished. ARM Burundi provides health care, personal hygiene and clothing, pre-school education, etc.

From 1998 to 2018, ARM Burundi has been implementing projects to assist and develop the Batwa in the provinces of Mwaro (Commune Ndava) and Gitega (communes Giheta, Gitega and Itaba). The activities consisted of adult literacy in 50 member households, support in agriculture and schooling for their children. Today, ARM Burundi has no funding to continue supporting the Batwa in its area of intervention. Occasionally, ARM Burundi only gives them food.

This is a one-year project that started in February 2016 and ended in March 2017. It was funded by the Solidarité Protestante de Belgique. The project involved 118 out-of-school girls in difficult circumstances. The objectives of the project were the empowerment of single girls and women in difficult circumstances and the positive change of the girls who followed the life skills information.  This project has no funding today.

This project is located in Bujumbura, Ngozi and Gitega. Having started its activities in 1998, this project provides medical and psychosocial care to 1164 people living with AIDS and 165 orphans in Bujumbura, Ngozi and Gitega. Since 2008, this project has been financed for medical equipment and medicines by the Belgian Protestant Solidarity. Currently this funding has stopped with the month of December 2015. Although the funding for this project was ended, it never closed. The management of ARM Burundi has always sought the continuation of activities through its own funds from the Rohero and Jabe clinics.

Since 2002, ARM has been distributing donations, food, clothing and New Year’s gifts to various churches and Christian associations. These activities are carried out in almost all provinces of Burundi. The donors of ARM’s donations are mainly WER-UK, Team Hope, IHP, Feed the Hungry (USA) and Food For The Hungry (Canada).