Burundi, like many countries in the Great Lakes region, faces serious environmental pressures: a dense population on limited land, soil erosion on the hills, deforestation, solid waste management that is still inadequate — plastic waste above all —, water pollution, and increasingly visible effects of climate change (irregular rains, floods, landslides). These pressures reach daily life directly: health, farming, access to water, the safety of homes.

Against this background, environmental education is an essential lever: it allows everyone — pupil, parent, farmer, trader, local official — to understand what is at stake and to act at their own level, rather than waiting for solutions to come from elsewhere.