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 Friendship Nursery School in Kibungo in southern Rwanda prides itself on providing young children with the best education available, yet the building itself was hazardous to the youngsters’...
Bushenge, located in Nyamasheke district in Southwestern Rwanda, is hill country dotted by farm fields and traditional dwellings. The walk to the regional hospital center is daunting, especially for...
Groupe Scolaire Rango is a secondary school in the Bugesera district of Rwanda. The Youth Ambassadors are a performing arts group comprised of secondary students who meet weekly to create songs,...
Youth living with HIV are all too often stigmatized and excluded from their neighborhood, family and school communities as a result of their HIV status and many experience a lack of support that...
Having access to books written in one's native language is important in the development of a child's overall literacy, creativity and love of reading. In 2010 there were only English language reading...