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Burundi and United Nations

: But neither of those was my dream, according to Huffington Post Canada. I couldn't picture myself sitting in an office all day long. And I always gave him the same answer: "Because I'm happy where I am." For many young people in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, a good job meant working for a foreign NGO or for the United Nations system. Ever since I was a child, my three greatest passions had been teaching, basketball and radio, and I had achieved the objectives that I had set for myself then: I was teaching in the morning, coaching basketball in the afternoon, and hosting a radio show in the evening. It was the year 2000, and Burundi was going through one of the toughest periods in its history since the assassination of President Ndadaye in 1993. That was my life, and I loved it. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.