Streets Ahead Children's Centre Association (SACCA) - Eastern Province, Rwanda (Project No. 2) July 3rd 2007
In 1994, in just under 100 days, nearly 1 million people were brutally murdered, often by family, friends and neighbours. Many years on and the sad legacy of the genocide remains.
· 64%!o(MISSING)f the population live on less than 1$ a day
· 3.8%!o(MISSING)f Rwandans have a secondary school education
· 48%!h(MISSING)ave access to clean drinking water
· 2%!o(MISSING)f the population have ... read more
Africa » Rwanda » Ville de Kigali » Kigali In 1959, three years before independence from Belgium, the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, overthrew the ruling Tutsi king. Over the next several years, thousands of Tutsis were killed, and some 150,000 driven into exile in neighboring countries. T... ... read more
While working closely with the staff at CCPRWA and other local NGOs in Rwanda it became obvious to me that whilst they’d achieved amazing results, with little or no resources, the survival of their activities hung desperately in the balance due to a lack of basic financial planning and management . They had little or no access to any formal training or professional services. After returning to the UK I found the mismatching of volunteer’s skills was commonplace. There were little or no voluntary opportunities accessible to highly skilled tenured professionals to share their skills, while at ... full info