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World Connect Rwanda

Supporting locally-led development in Rwanda by investing in the solutions of Rwandan communities to address their most pressing challenges.

World Connect
Rwanda

Since 2012, World Connect Rwanda has invested $870,450 in 187 community-led projects toward which communities have co-invested $325,748 and raised an additional $243,663 from other funders.

Our investments have improved education, health, economic opportunity, environmental protection, water, hygiene and sanitation, and agriculture while empowering women and youth to lead these local development initiatives.

Through a network of local development champions, World Connect Rwanda has supported locally-led development projects across all the four provinces of Rwanda and the City of Kigali. These projects are designed and implemented by local community members who ensure that the initiatives solve their most pressing issues and continue to sustain benefits for their communities beyond the seed investment from World Connect Rwanda.

Our co-investment partnership model leads to skill growth, expanded trust and unity, and readied communities with localized development leadership.


By The Numbers

We work with our community partners to track 400+ indicators across our 2,200+ investments using a custom built database.

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254,
000+
Rwandans impacted by community-led projects that received catalytic funding from World Connect Rwanda

87%
success rate of World Connect Rwanda-funded projects

80%
projects over ten years old that continue to sustain benefits for the community

By The Numbers

WWe work with our community partners to track 400+ indicators across our 2,200+ investments using a custom built database.

co-invest with us

254,
000+
Rwandans impacted by community-led projects that received catalytic funding from World Connect Rwanda

87%
success rate of World Connect Rwanda-funded projects

80%
projects over ten years old that continue to sustain benefits for the community

Project Co-Investments

World Connect Rwanda reaches the most remote communities, improving livelihoods for vulnerable communities while building trust for local development champions. 48% of our project leaders are first time grantees.

THRIVE FOR A BETTER LIFE

Rwanda

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Health
2021

This project will support 28 families (147 people in total) in Akanyinya village of Mbazi Sector in Huye district, southern province of Rwanda who have formed Ikizere (Hope) self-help group to...

Isimbi Support House

Rwanda

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Economic Opportunity
2021

This project will establish the Isimbi Support House in Bastinda in Kigali city. The house will be a permanet space for women who have traditionally worked selling fruits in the informal market,...

PIGGERY FARMING

Rwanda

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Economic Opportunity
2021

The project aimed at purchasing 110 pigs for 110 household heads in Nyakayezi cell of Bugesera district who together formed the Abahuje umurimo group. The group will raise the pigs and obtain manure...

Community ECD center in Ruganda village

Rwanda

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Education
2022

This project will support the Ruganda village to build and establish an early childhood development center, a space for children under 5 to receive care and edcuation prior to starting primary...

Sewing Project

Rwanda

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Economic Opportunity
2021

The project will train 100 women and youth in sewing so they can learn skills to make clothes needed in the community and earn income. specifically, the project will support women who have been...