Social and/or environmental enterprises, cooperatives and associations, and donor and support agencies in Rwanda
The Association des Guides du Rwanda (AGR; Guides Association of Rwanda) is the national Guiding organization of Rwanda. The association serves 9,807 members (as of 2003). Founded in 1962, the girls-only organization became a full member of the World Asso ...
Cooperative, 227 Members.
This rapidly growing cooperative is working to make coffee farming a viable occupation by accessing the specialty coffee market and developing strong relationships with coffee roasters. Membership is more than 50% female. Abahuzamugambi means People Unite ...
Cooperative 1957 members. The Abakundakawa co-operative is a Fairtrade farmers group producing some of the finest coffee in Rwanda. Abakundakawa translates to: those who love coffee. This Rwandan cooperative with a funny name formed in 2004. In six years, ...
This cooperative started its activities in 1996 with 12 members, all women. Most of these women are widows from the 1994 genocide. They were left with no income, no help and no hope. Nyarubuye, Kirehe district. Women from the "Abakundamuco" (or those who ...
The women of the Abarikumwe Association are remarkable, delightful, and visionary. The group began in 2006 through the contagious determination of two neighbors, Yusta and Christine. These women were tired of weaving alone and selling their crafts for a f ...
Association of 25 women in Rwanda. These women, starting from the most difficult of circumstances, have organized themselves into their own for-profit business, the Abasangiye Cooperative (Abasangiye). In July 2010 Abasangiye commenced an intense series o ...
Cooperative. Abatigayubuke are harnessing their famous traditional skills of pottery and performing arts to make a living and to serve as an exemplary Batwa community that is fully integrated in the area's social life and structures.
The women of the Abibumbye Cooperative do not consider themselves merely coworkers, or even friends. They consider themselves a family that helps each other grow and flourish, working together to overcome poverty. One of their few requirements for joining ...
Before forming their weaving group in 2004, the women of the Abihuje Association were in a difficult situation typical of subsistence farming families in Rwanda. They were overburdened by poverty, unable to provide for their families, dependent on their h ...
The women of Abizeranye have future goals of connecting with a large sustainable market, and of beginning a project cultivating mushrooms. Goal of strengthening community. Abizeranye means People Who Trust One Another Association. Abizeranye's artistic sp ...
The Abumurava Cooperative was begun by a core group of women in October 2007 as a forum for working together in order to provide mutual support, development, and increased standard of living. Many of the women have struggled with illness, poverty, and lon ...
Amasezerano Community Banking, S.A. is a for-profit microfinance institution founded in 2005 by the Rwandan NGO African Evangelist Enterprises-Rwanda and 61 individual shareholders. The mission of Amasezerano Community Bank (ACB) is to have a holistic, po ...
In Rwanda and other impoverished countries throughout the world, economic development is the goal of significant national and international efforts. The Access Project focuses on a critical component in this bigger picture: health. Why health first? Poor ...
Accounting for International Development (A f I D) offers accountants the opportunity to use their skills to make a genuine difference as volunteers and to gain invaluable hands-on overseas experience in the International Development sector. Volunteer ass ...
NGO with the aim of reintegrating children affected by conflict. Has both economic and social aims, gives professional training eg sewing, carpentry
Small local NGO. Intervention zones: Rutsiro, Mabanza and Kivumu communes (Kibuye prefecture) and Ramba commune (Gisenyi prefecture) Activities:Water conveying and springs catchment, Agriculture and animal breeding (wool sheep, goats, cow ...
NGO. l' Association pour le Développement de Nyabimata, est une association locale et rurale sans but lucratif de droit Rwandais. ADENYA intervient principalement dans la province du SUD. Ses actions actuelles s'étendent sur le District d ...
Development and environmental consultancy
The African Conservation Foundation is working towards the protection and conservation of Africa's endangered wildlife and their habitats. Our overall mission is to change the approach of the management and utilization of natural resources to one in which ...