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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By The Numbers
WWe work with our community partners to track 400+ indicators across our 2,200+ investments using a custom built database.
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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.
The First 1000 Days Community Health Worker Education and Nutritional Garden Project
Cyabayaga is a rural Eastern Rwandan community that expanded considerably following the Rwandan Genocide. Although the population has grown, local institutions have not kept pace with its increased...
Upon the onset of menstruation, girls and boys begin to exhibit very different school attendance rates in Rwanda. Girls who are menstruating miss nearly two months of school of year because they...
A $497 grant from World Connect’s Kids to Kids Program in 2010 supported the Kin-Folk Art initiative, which was a project that provided children in Rwanda with an introductory series of creative...
The Groupe Scolaire Secondary School’s Kids’ Club in Rwanda is a student initiated activity where kids meet on a bi-weekly basis to learn songs and study HIV/AIDS and other health related issues....
With $500 grant from World Connect’s Kids to Kids Program in 2010, Hope House expanded into an interactive space for all ages where children from the home and the community can now come to learn...