Fighting Poverty through Jobs and Education

Rwanda Partners works to improve the lives of the poor and marginalized in Rwanda through economic and educational programs.

Creating Jobs

Helping to sustain Widows, orphans and rural families with much-needed income

Educating Youth

Equipping street children children and other vulnerable youth with a life-saving education

Providing School Uniforms

Providing dignity and an education to street students and income to vulnerable youth

Our Poverty Fighting programs include:

• The Rwanda Basket Co. - employing over 2000 rural women

• The Urunana Pineapple Plantation – benefitting 82 reconciled rape victims and genocide perpetrators’ wives

• The Ambassadors Cassava Plantation – providing economic support for 120 reconciled perpetrators, survivors and lay leaders from local churches

• Gashora Orphans Cassava Plantation – supporting 10 orphan heads of households

• The Gashora Orphans Sewing Program – training 15 vulnerable youth in Gashora in sewing

• The Wirira Widows Chicken/Egg/Corn Farm – benefitting 56 genocide widows and their children

• Vocational Sewing Program – providing a market to 25 unemployed young adults

• Catch-Up Schools Program – providing support for 2 Catch-Up Schools that employ 16 teachers and educates 662 street students

• Uniforms Transform Campaign – providing school uniforms to 662 street children