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Thursday, February 27, 2025

Breaking Barriers and building futures through Gihombo Technical School

In the quiet community of Gihombo, stood a technical school grappling with challenges. Gihombo Technical Secondary School (TSS) once struggled to equip its students for a brighter future. Without basic tools for practical learning, students faced a difficult battle, their dreams seemingly out of reach.

Victoire with her harvest of beans

Victoriously taking up the mantle - Victoire’s story

Victoire and her seven children were not having it all rosy; life was tough for them. Her husband was imprisoned for over 12 years, and she single-handedly...

Simpuga and his fresh half cakes

Empowered to Thrive

A few years ago, Jean de Dieu joined World Vision’s Empowered World View training, where he gained knowledge and insights that helped him realise his...

Elizabeth and her son walking back home from fetching water

Clean water contributing to household empowerment

Before the availability of water in her community, Elizabeth's children used to walk a distance of two kilometres to fetch water. Lack of water also led to...

Jolly loves to read to her mom Betty

Jolly “unlocks” her joy

Before nine-year-old Jolly started going to the reading camp, she could hardly read a word. Her grades were poor and this affected her results for her...

Children at Groupe Scholaire Kibirizi students enjoying new buildings

Children at Groupe Scolaire Kibirizi now enjoying quality learning

Groupe Scolaire Kibirizi school is a secondary school in Rubengera sector - Karongi District, in the Western province of Rwanda. Before the start of a...

Claudine Uwababyeyi World Vision Rwanda's Female driver

Meet Claudine, World Vision's female driver

Sometimes we feel like giving up, even when we are in the winning lane. But the story of World Vision Rwanda’s only female driver shows how it is never too...

World Vision Rwanda P & C Director,Ag IPD, Director of ICT from REB and other guests

World Vision launches ProFuturo project to enhance digital education in schools

The project which began in Rwanda in march 2018 has so far equipped 96 primary schools in Rwanda, serving 74,718 children with IT infrastructure to...

Alphonsine making sweaters

Disability is not inability – Alphonsine's story testifies

At the age of seven, Alphonsine got polio. Her family was not able to give her proper treatment, which resulted into her becoming disabled and facing...

Inaugurated toilets

World Vision supports communities to access improved water and sanitation facilities

Along with the water supply systems and hand-washing stations, World Vision in the last fiscal year enabled communities to construct over 48,000 latrines...

Monica representing World Vision

World Vision commits to plant over 7 million trees through land restoration projects

In line with the national theme for the tree-planting season, ‘Forests for Community Livelihood and Sustainable Development’, and in an effort to...

Assouma's constructed latrine

Isuku Iwacu ends infections and diseases related to poor hygiene in Taba Village

The Isuku Iwacu project that phased out in March 2020, focused on three strategic areas; increasing demand for sanitation products and services at the...

Launch of Chosen Initiative in Rwanda | World Vision 2020

'Chosen' in Rwanda: An aura of joy as children choose their sponsors for the first time

'Chosen' is a World Vision initiative under which children get to choose their own sponsor instead of a sponsor choosing them. This approach puts the power...

Twiyubake Twitezimbere saving group

Restoring hope to teenage mothers through the Ingobyi programme

Twenty-year-old Jeanette conceived at the age of 18. When she got pregnant, her family and the neighbourhood could barely accept her; everyone at home was...

Ejo Heza group members displaying their products

Building a brighter future through improving community hygiene

Sanitation was previously a huge challenge to communities in Gitoki sector, Gatsibo District. World Vision-led trainings in mindset-change and the...

Josiane happily waiting for clients in her shop

It took only five days to change Josiane for a lifetime

Josiane makes some money as a tailor, but all the little profit she would make would go towards catering for food for her family. The mother of three did...

Emmanuel seated alongside his wife and children

Promoting self-reliance through mindset change

Emmanuel, 36, is a father of four children who lives in Gatsibo District in the Eastern province of Rwanda. He narrates how the life of his family has...

Members of Sa neza group

Transforming the youth through vocational skills

'Sa neza', loosely translated as Look Good, is an initiative by five girls who put to use the skills they learned from training provided by World Vision's...

Video: Inauguration of hand-washing facilities to help curb the spread of COVID-19 in Rwanda

World Vision partnered with the Ministry of Health to boost efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 through construction of improved hand-washing...

Sean Kerrigan,World Vision Rwanda National Director presenting handover documents to Dr. Daniel Ngamije,Rwanda's Minister of Health

World Vision partners with the Ministry of Health to inaugurate hand-washing stations in health facilities

In partnership with the Ministry of Health, World Vision recently inaugurated 49 modern hand-washing facilities that were set up at hospitals and health...

Rose, a young adult on the front line of COVID-19 prevention

Rose, a young adult on the front line of COVID-19 prevention

Formerly registered under World Vision's child sponsorship programme, Rose is now a youth volunteer working to sensitise her community on COVID-19 and...

Kellen(right side) and her little sister cheerfully reading

Enhancing Literacy through Reading Camps

Children and their parents share about how World Vision's Reading Camps are helping children to improve their literacy skills while schools are closed...

Diogene poses for a photo in his garden

Improving food security & livelihoods for smallholder farmers

Forty-four-year-old Diogene Habimana, is a father of three children and lives in Bugesera District. When you enter his compound, you are drawn to a variety...

Some of the farmers who are part of Icyerecezo maize producer cooperative prepare the maize after harvest

Transforming smallholder farmers’ livelihoods through providing access to market

Appolinalia Mukasharangabo is a 58-year-old single mother of one. She is a member of Icyerecezo cooperative that comprises of farmers who grow maize on...

Chantal washes her hands as her little sisters look on

Access to clean water is keeping Chantal safe during the COVID-19 period

Chantal Umutoni, 34, lives in Kigeme refugee camp with her husband and two sisters. She came to Rwanda with her family from the Democratic Republic of...