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.
Banda, one of Rwanda's most undeveloped but densely populated villages, is on the periphery of Nyungwe Forest National Park. Gasanane Primary School in Banda Village serves around 400 children and...
It’s not just the little kids of Gasaka in the mountainous countryside of Rwanda’s Nyamagabe District – the kindergartners and elementary school students – who will benefit from the Kids...
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...
Computer Lab for Exodus Center Vocational Training School for Vulnerable Youth, Nyagatare, Rwanda
Exodus Center is a youth vocational training school which provides re-education and social integration for some of the most vulnerable youth in Rwanda. Some of these students are orphans, experience...
G.S. Muhura Boarding School is located in rural Muhura, Rwanda. Home to 500 students, the school's library facilities are woefully underdeveloped and obselete, with literacy material that is outdated...