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The project is engaging children from largely high-poverty government schools in Kigali in a series of virtual innovation challenges focused on issues of local importance and thereby providing them with the opportunity to build STEM knowledge and hone their skills as they design innovative solutions to real-world problems - projects have focused on vaccine distribution and the creation of urban gardens and the development of green schools.

By training 230 young girls in demand-driven Information and Communications Technology (ICT) curriculum, and by plugging them into real world situations where they can apply what they have learnt, the project is supporting schoolgirls to develop an interest in coding and ICT and the skills to develop careers in the field.

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The 3-year project is working in partnership with Save the Children's Kumwe Hub to support up to 30 Rwandan start-up social businesses whose focus includes the wellbeing and happiness of children living in Kigali's poorest communities by providing them with low-interest business loans and tailored ‘wrap-around support’ packages. 

The 3-year project is supporting young genocide survivors who have dropped out of education and the job market by helping them to set up small businesses, secure internships and access vocational training.

Seed funding is enabling the development of detailed and ambitious project proposals for significant ecosystem restoration in Non-profit RWCA can create credible science-based methodologies and metrics for demonstrating the natural capital impact that such a project could achieve, which will significantly increase its ability to secure considerably greater funding from a wide range of sources to support the delivery of the project. 

Meet the people behind the initiative

Each year in Rwanda, there is a 3-month commemoration period of the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. During Covid19 survivors were unable to access their usual face-to-face counselling support from Survivors Fund and other providers. We launched a project to provide remote, telephone-based mental health and welfare support to genocide survivors.

The 3-year project is improving the wellbeing and resilience of teenage mothers and pregnant teenagers, helping them to reach their full potential, ensure they are supported by their families and community and that they have what they need to be able to bring up their children themselves, rather than seeing their children taken into care, and for their children to thrive.