By GlobeMed | Co-Presidents
RVCP and GlobeMed have worked closely together for more than five years on the Maternal Health Education Program in Rwanda. Like all sustainable partnerships, there comes a point when the organizations turn the program over to the local community so that they are able to take full ownership. This year, that is what RVCP and GlobeMed at GW have been working toward. We have worked with RVCP to help the women's cooperative go through the application process to become certified and recognized by the government and therefore eligible to receive government support in the following years.
Along these lines, the government of Rwanda has showed interest in rice harvesting and so have the women of the cooperative. The cooperative has decided that growing rice will be more profitable than harvesting crops such as potatoes and corn, given the working conditions they have. Since this is important to the women, and what they want to spend their time on, GlobeMed has chosen to help them start this project for the first year including renting the land, and purchasing the necessary start up costs. In addition we are trying to set up a meeting between the government agricultural specialist and the cooperative so that the women are fully trained and educated on what it takes to grow a successful rice crop.
We hope to see the women's cooperative successful in a project that they have chosen to pursue and would love your help in assisting with the start up costs of their vision.
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