e-muhira
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Urugo rwacu, isi yacu — our home, our land
Learning, acting and passing it on to protect our common home.
An environmental education platform for young people, schools, households and communities in Burundi, run by ACAPE Burundi.
Where to start
Four ways in
📘 Environmental education
Ten simple, progressive modules to understand the environment and learn how to protect it, to follow alone, in class or in a club.
🤝 Community action
Practical sheets for organising clean-ups, tree planting and green days near you: steps, materials and indicators.
📚 Teaching resources
The catalogue of the programme’s guides, sheets, posters and tools, and how to obtain them.
📢 Report an alert
Illegal dumping, pollution, deforestation, erosion? Report it in a few clicks. The form explains how to describe a useful alert.
Our priorities
Five priorities for the environment
🎓 Educate
Training young people and schools, because today’s environmental education shapes tomorrow’s behaviour.
♻️ Manage waste
Reducing and recovering waste, especially plastic waste, through sorting, collection and the circular economy.
🌳 Reforest and restore
Restoring ecosystems through reforestation, soil protection and the fight against erosion.
🌦️ Adapt to the climate
Strengthening community resilience to climate change through suitable, accessible practices.
🕊️ Live integral ecology
Linking care for nature, human dignity and everyone’s responsibility, in the spirit of Laudato Si'.
How it works
A path in three stages
Learn
Follow the ten modules online, at your own pace. Each module states its objective, level and duration, and you can pick up where you left off.
Act
Put it into practice with the action sheets: clean-up, tree planting, green day. Each sheet sets out the steps, materials and monitoring indicators.
Pass it on
Start a club, raise awareness around you, share your story: what you have learned becomes useful to others.
Every action counts.
Join young people, schools and communities who are learning and acting for the environment.
Create my account Discover the programme
You can also register a club, involve a parish, browse the glossary or write to us.
Why e-muhira exists
Droughts, erosion, deforestation, plastic waste: harm to the environment is visible everywhere in Burundi. This is what the programme seeks to push back.
Climate change
More frequent droughts and floods. Rainfall is becoming unpredictable, making our farming calendars obsolete.
Severe erosion
Gullies are spreading and soil fertility is declining. On slopes farmed without protection, the soil that feeds us washes into the rivers with every heavy rain.
Deforestation
Wood and charcoal remain the household fuel of most families. Pressure on the forests, including the Kibira, is not easing, and the water towers are being stripped bare.
Growing plastic waste pollution
Plastic waste is piling up in gutters, rivers and lakes. Despite the ban on non-biodegradable bags, single-use packaging is still everywhere.
Join us
e-muhira is an environmental learning platform open to all, designed to raise awareness and mobilise every Burundian citizen to protect our shared environment.
The platform is aimed first at four audiences:
- pupils and students;
- young people leading initiatives in their neighbourhood or on their hill;
- local associations and cooperatives;
- teachers, facilitators and community workers.
It is open whatever your level of education, whether you live in town or in the countryside, whether you learn alone or in a group.
Skip available courses
Available courses
Start with a module
23 short modules across three paths — environment, integral ecology and PSEA — open once you enrol and designed for slow connections. Follow them at your own pace, alone, in class or in a club.