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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.

Ubuzima Bumba

Rwanda

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Education
2013

Sport and play, according to the UN are "human rights that must be respected and enforced worldwide." Sport can be one strategy in the effort to achieving Millennium Development Goals as sports...

Ganza Lanterns- Village Women's Co-op made Solar Lanterns

Rwanda

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Economic Opportunity
2013

Children in Gicwamba, Rwanda cannot study after school because they lack adequate light. The kerosene lamps that are traditionally used in the village cause eye irritation and breathing problems for...

Biogas For All: Bringing Energy Into The Community, One Digester At A Time

Rwanda

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Health
2013

The Nyagihanga Sector community in Rwanda is largely comprised of subsistence farmers; from dusk to evening, elderly, men, women, mothers with their babies on their backs, teenagers and children work...