Over 500 Rwandans who participated in Stories For Hope tell us they are more hopeful after dialogues with elders. But hope is not an action plan, especially if you are an orphan due to violent loss. To prepare orphans to transition into their adult lives, in a new initiative we are teaching basic business skills to a group of young people about to leave the security of an protected village/orphanage.
There are survivors of genocide and crimes against humanity with the courage and the need to tell their stories. We work to make this possible, sharing their stories with compassion and respect.
This Global Grassroots' sponsored project, titled "Relax", is combating domestic violence by educating women about their rights and giving rural representatives cell phones to report cases of abuse.
Countries:
Rwanda
Themes:
Education,
Children,
Women and Girls,
Health,
Technology
Sanejo, through the promotion of education, aims to support communities transiting from war to peace or facing abject poverty. To ensure that all children have a happy and safe place to learn, support is extended to local communities to reconstruct and expand schools. The Ntenyo Project is the primary community we are working in. We are working directly with the Ntenyo community to provide and promote quality education, healthcare, water, electricity, computer training and understanding.
Designing an irrigation system for the L'esperance Orhpanage to grow crops during the dry season, increasing the health of the children and helping the orphanage become economically self-sufficient.
Countries:
Rwanda
Themes:
Women and Girls,
Education,
Human Rights
The project will educate 30 women each year allowing them to improve the lives of their families, to understand their rights and to actively participate in society
Countries:
Rwanda
Themes:
Women and Girls,
Children,
Human Rights
Domestic violence is a serious problem in Rwanda. We will teach the community domestic violence’s root causes, effects and consequences through theatre to change behaviors.
Countries:
Rwanda
Themes:
Children,
Education,
Hunger,
HIV-AIDS,
Peace and Security
We are providing care and material support (school fees, materials, insurance, clothing nutritional support) for 50,000 children orphaned or otherwise vulnerable as a result of HIV/AIDs or genocide.
Global Grassroots' Conscious Change Academy provides 12-18 months of conscious leadership and social venture training, seed grants and high-engagement support for grassroots change agents in Rwanda
The project is for improving hand washing practices which is the single cost effective health intervention to 3 primary schools students by mobilization of children to improve behaviors around hands hygiene and proper sanitation and to increase access to safe water and sanitation services to children when they stay at school. the project is running by teaching hygiene and sanitation to primary student.