The Hakuna and Komera Foundations promote a chapel at a university in Burundi

The Bishop of Ngozi, Georges Bizimana, has recently consecrated the altar of the chapel at the University of this city in northern Burundi. The project was born in 2025 thanks to the Hakuna and Komera foundations, and the University of Ngozi.

The chapel has a capacity for 100 people, and the design was created in Spain by a team of architects and creators, according to the promoters.

The chapel project has the support of the local bishop and the university’s rector, Father Apollinaire Bangayimbaga, with whom the promoters of the venue have had a relationship for some time.

In addition to the construction of the chapel, the project includes the organization of various activities “to bring it to life”, such as “formation, adoration, and musical creation workshops”. For this, two volunteers from Komera & Hakuna have moved to Ngozi for a year.

According to the volunteers, during the experience they have grown fond of people like Marcos, the chapel’s painter who had an accident, and Samu, a missionary with whom they celebrated his birthday.

“We have also met Gilbert, a boy who was operated on in Spain a few years ago. It has been very special to meet his family, so grateful, and to feel so closely all the good that is being done here,” they explained.

They have also learned about projects of the Komera Foundation in Burundi: a primary school, a mother-and-child center, a wheat mill, and the church of Saint Teresa of Calcutta, which will be inaugurated in July and for whose equipment both are working.