Overview

USAID Uburezi Iwacu is a five-year USAID-funded activity, implemented by World Vision as a prime organization, Imbuto Foundation, Humanity and Inclusion as consortium organizations, together with the local implementing partners who make our work possible on the ground. DUHAMIC ADRI, AEE and YWCA.

USAID Uburezi Iwacu (USAID Homes &Community Activity) started in 2021 and is ending in 2026. By 2026, we want to see all children have literacy-supportive, stimulating and safe home and community environments.

The main goal of USAID Uburezi Iwacu (Homes and Communities) is to ensure that all children have safe, healthy, and stimulating home and community environments. To achieve this, the project will contribute to literacy outcomes through holistic preprimary and primary education and work to improve social and emotional learning skills.  

USAID Uburezi Iwacu will support families to create home environments that stimulate and support children’s learning in the following ways: 

1. using positive parenting approaches,
2. providing conducive reading spaces, 
3. taking time to read for children and listening to them reading, 
4. providing books, and 
5. enabling children, especially children with disabilities, to participate in community literacy activities. 

Communities will be engaged and supported with new quality and accessible literacy materials and structures. The project will conduct assessments of the existing structure's strengths and weaknesses to inform equitable targets. 

Interventions focus on transforming communities into literacy supportive communities by establishing: 

1. reading clubs that provide quality services to all children, 
2. community libraries, 
3. parent peer support networks (PPSN), and 
4. groups of skilled parents/caregivers, community education workers, and volunteers ready to support children's learning.