Become an Imuhira Animator
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Become an Imuhira Animator, a Guardian of Creation
An Imuhira Animator learns, acts and passes it on. He or she trains on e-muhira, launches practical initiatives at home, at school, in the parish or on the hill, and draws others into caring for our common home. The path is free and open to anyone registered on the platform.
Urugo rwacu, isi yacu
The role
Learn, act, pass it on
An Imuhira Animator is not an expert from elsewhere. He or she is a member of the community who has trained, leads by example and helps others to act, with schools, parishes and local authorities — never in their place.
Learn
Follow the platform’s three courses: the environment, integral ecology, and protecting people from sexual exploitation and abuse.
Act
Launch practical initiatives with the means at hand: clean-ups, sorting plastic waste, planting and caring for trees, protecting a spring…
Pass it on
Bring a group along — a club, a class, a parish, neighbours on the hill — and help it carry on without you.
Step 1 · Train
Three courses, about 11 hours online
Each course is taken at your own pace, on a computer or a phone. It is complete once its tests are passed; a certificate in your name, with a verification code, can then be downloaded as a PDF.
Environmental education
10 modules and 10 tests: waste, plastics, climate, water, biodiversity, reforestation, eco-citizenship, Laudato Si’, practical action.
About 5¼ to 6 hours
Integral ecology
6 modules and 6 tests to understand that “everything is connected” and learn to lead a community. Each module offers 4 sessions to run together on the ground.
About 1¾ hours online
PSEA — protecting people
7 modules, 7 tests and a final test on protection from sexual exploitation and abuse. Essential for anyone leading groups that include children and vulnerable people.
About 3½ to 4 hours
In all, about 11 hours online. At one hour a week, the full path takes about three months. The group sessions of the Integral ecology course come on top of this, at your community’s pace.
How these times are estimated: careful reading at 120 to 150 words a minute, about one minute per test question and around ten minutes of discussion on each module’s forum. Your own pace may differ.
Step 2 · Act
Three initiatives you have launched
A Guardian of Creation is known by what he or she does. To become one, you launch at least three initiatives and report each of them on the platform. The ACAPE team checks them before they count.
What counts as an initiative
- You started it: you proposed, prepared and led it.
- It is practical and local: a visible step for the environment, at home, at school, in the parish or on the hill.
- At least one of the three is carried out with a group: a club, a class, a parish or neighbours.
- It follows the golden rules: permission from local authorities, consent for photos, no hazardous waste handled.
How to report it
- Fill in one entry per initiative in “Report a completed action”: date, place, scale, number of participants, result.
- Add evidence: a photo taken with people’s consent, or an attachment.
- Only report what was really done. The team may contact you, or a local leader, to check.
Step 3 · Be recognised
Two badges, one for each stage reached
The badges appear on your e-muhira profile. Each one states who issued it and on what conditions, so that anyone can check what it is worth.
Imuhira Animator on mission
Issued automatically as soon as the three courses are complete. You are then an Imuhira Animator and can launch your initiatives.
Imuhira Animator, Guardian of Creation
Issued by ACAPE Burundi once three of your initiatives have been checked, at least one of them carried out with a group.
Our shared commitments
What is expected of an Imuhira Animator
- Live by the Imuhira Charter and invite those around you to sign it.
- Protect children and vulnerable people in every activity, as taught in the PSEA course.
- Act with schools, parishes and local authorities, never in their place.
- Tell the truth: report only what was really done.
Where to act next
An Imuhira Animator can start or support an environmental club, an Imuhira Parish or an Imuhira School. The platform provides a step-by-step guide for each.
This path draws on programmes that have proved their worth, such as the Laudato Si’ Animators programme of the Laudato Si’ Movement: training, a first practical project in one’s community, and a commitment to safeguarding rules.
Frequently asked questions
Before you start
In what order should I take the three courses?
Does the Imuhira Animator status cost anything?
Can I report an initiative before finishing the courses?
What if an initiative is not accepted?
My question is not listed here.
Ready to become a Guardian of Creation?
Start today with the first module. Every hour of training and every initiative counts for our common home.