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New Generation was founded in 1998 in Burundi as a nonprofit organisation. The organisation conducts a wide range of programmes with children and young people which includes leadership training, assistance to street children, health programs, skills training, radio and television programs to raise awareness about the issues they face in Burundi today.

New Generation is one of only a small number of charities working with street children (predominantly boys but an increasing number of girls in the past few years) in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi and other urban areas in Burundi. The organisation is based in Bujumbura and is staffed by Burundians, some of whom are former street boys.

“The reason we started New Generation was to see how young people, especially the street children, can work together and make our country better than it was [during the war].”
(Dieudonné Nahimana, founder of New Generation).

New Generation has responded to a lack of social protection and care for street children in Burundi, by providing homes, education and re-integration back into communities. Street Children are housed in a series of homes in the Bujumbura area. In addition, where possible, children are repatriated to their home communities, often up-country in rural Burundi, many miles away from the capital where they have journeyed.