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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.

Goat farming in Mutembo

Rwanda

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Economic Opportunity
2021

This project will support the Duhuzimbaraga cooperative in Mutembo community to launch a goats pass-on activity. 50 participating cooperative member households will build adequate housing for goats...

Rabbit farming to support teenager mothers at Banda Village

Rwanda

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Economic Opportunity
2021

This project will support a rural cooperative in Banda village that is comprised primarily of young mothers. The cooperative has elected to pursue rabbit farming as a collective income generating...

Isuku Soaps - School-centered soap enterprise

Rwanda

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Health
2021

This project will lead to the establishment of a soap-making enterprise at the Nyabirehe School, a large, rural primary school, integrating parents and teachers from the school in production of soaps...

Pig farming in Rubirizi

Rwanda

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Economic Opportunity
2021

This project will take place in Rubirizi, a village of 215 households and 915 people where 98% of the population is engaged in subsistence agriculture. Due to some unique environmental feaures, the...

You and I against new COVID variants

Rwanda

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Health
2021

This project will lead to the installation of three permanent, public handwashing stations in the market town of Mburamazi, which has a population of 18,000 people. The handwashing stations will be...