Nsinda Vocational Training School, Rwamagana, RWANDA - Development & Sustainability Project - The Day Job July 1st 2007 For those of you that didn’t know I’ve left life in London and taken a new job as the International Development Director for a small NGO, Children’s Care and Protection Rwanda and UK registered charity Unity of Children. CCPRWA was formed in 1998 following the genocide, by a group of Rwandan’s who had grown up as orphans in Uganda and with the support of a number of international organisat ... 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