AIC Rwanda

The Dream Taekwondo Club, founded in October 2011 has won 14 trophies since then and 80% of Rwandan national team performers are from this club. The Dream Taekwondo Club applied to AIC Rwanda for funding for equipment.

Our Charity projects can be small but still make a huge difference…

Here is a community playground in Kabuga where a set of swings for kids in need was provided to the African Mission Alliance.

A lovely reaction from our charity donation to a MindLeaps project… support was offered for sanitation kits for girls.

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Here is a brief reminder as to why your support of AIC Rwanda is so necessary.  It’s a project our Charity Team funded in the Kamonyi District and it’s all about improving living conditions for the community, brick by brick…

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Here is a short video that captures a project started. It was an application for classroom facilities for 60 kids: materials, food, uniforms and sandals, in a very marginalised community.

Thanks to the ongoing goodwill of members and supporters the charity committee continues to do splendid work funding small grassroots projects in Rwanda. Here is a warm welcome from a mushroom farm project group and pics of their progress. This week they sold 20kilos of mushrooms at market!

Grant: Materials for 4 vocational training courses: 4 x 3-month courses 

Talking Through Arts: the organisation was founded in February 2015.

Targeted group:
People with physical impairment who beg for money on streets of Kigali.

Grant: Provision of bookshelves and benches for the establishment of libraries for children in 4 hospitals in Kigali.

Grant:

Construction of a semi-permanent structure consisting of two crates, an outdoor run and financial support for vaccines and food for the dogs in WAG’s care.

Grant: Educational materials for Irerero Nursery School in the Batwa community, Ndeya (kigali), a small school with 2 classes were 100 children, age 3-6 are being taught. 

Organization: Sports and Education Development Initiative-Rwanda (SEDI- RWANDA)

Project location: Ndera Sector, Gasabo District

The Sports and Education Development Imitative (SEDI) aims to engage, educate, and empower young people from an impoverished community in the rural outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda.

Grant: 2 (electric) sewing machines and water dispenser and bottles.

Urufunguzo Rw’umucyo was founded in 2012.
Co-operative (20 women)

General goals:
– Empowering vulnerable women
– Build sustainable means of development for them
– Restore hope and shine light to them and their families.

Grant: Budget to start the bakery and the running costs for 4 months.

Grant: Sewing machines, benches, chairs, electricity, airtime.

Grant: T-shirts and shorts

Future Vision started by Elisee Niyonsenga who grew up as a street kid in Gisenyi.

Future Vision Acrobats is about creating a space for street youth to develop their own solutions through acrobatic and talents.

AIC gave them a grant for T-shirts and shorts which they used during their Summer Camp Circus.

Grant: Desks and chairs for P5 and P6 classrooms.

Grant: English course, uniforms, stationery and English dictionaries.

Grant: Sewing machines, sewing materials, hair braiding materials
The goal of the organization is to give the women an opportunity to earn a living, to provide for their daily needs. The sewing machine and materials gave them an opportunity to better meet their goals and hopefully lead to increased business which in turn would continue.

Grant: Banners, fliers and dinner cards.

Grant: for their Holiday Food program, it provided food and porridge during the holidays in November, December and January 2016.

Holiday Food Programme
This project provides educational opportunities for the poorest and most vulnerable people of the Urugero and Umutaka communities in the Kinamba area of Kigali, Rwanda.

Grant: 10 sewing-machines

Grant: December Children’s camp.

Root Foundation was established in 2012 by a group of local young people in response to the growing number of street children visible in their local sector: Kinyinya, Kigali.

Grant: Construction kitchen and store-room.

Aspire Rwanda in Kigali provides urban women with the tools to earn a living and improve their quality of life. Every year a cohort of vulnerable women are selected for a one-year program that teaches skills training, literacy & numeracy, nutrition & health, family planning and women’s rights.

With new skills, knowledge and confidence, these women are improving their families’ standard of living and contributing to the creation of sustainable and peaceful communities.

Grant: Purchase and installation of a water tank to facilitate the production of soap.

Construction toilet facility for handicapped people.

Grant: Sanitation kits for girls. MindLeaps mission is to improve essential learning skills in street children and out-of-school youth in order to facilitate their reintegration into community. This is accomplished through a dance program focused  on youth empowerment skills, a sanitation program, a meal program and vocational training in IT and English.

AIC gave funding for 20 sanitation kits for the first group of girls.

Protective clothing.

Learning materials for children with mental disabilities.

Izere is a school for children with an intellectual disability. The centre provides special education for 35 children and sessions of physiotherapy for 90 children with physical and multiple disabilities.

They also promote the welfare of the children and integrate them into society. 

AIC gave Izere a grant for didactic materials.

Mosquito nets and posters.

A group of single mothers in Huye district are dreaming big of pigs.  They want to live the same dream as fellow Rwandan Kabalisa.  His success story was reported in the New Times Newspaper on 9 December 2014. Kabalisa began raising 17 piglets and now owns a multi-million-franc piggery.

The women in Huye started their own “PIG FARM PROJECT” with a donation from AIC that helped them to buy the materials to build pig sheds and to buy piglets.

This centre mainly supports victims of domestic violence and HIV. There are 2 sections: one for schoolgirls and one for adult women and they are divided into 8 subgroups, mainly in Kigali. In total 325 women are
supported/trained

Solid Africa is a young and dynamic local NPO-NGO that helps vulnerable patients in public hospitals in Rwanda. Working along with social workers, four main programs (Food for All, Medical Expenses, Hygiene, Hospital Bills and Transport) aimed at compensating for the lack of financial resources and thus, ease their recovery and accelerate their return back home.

We have supported Solid Africa by buying an industrial Mixer to prepare soup in big quantities (100L).

The idea of Abihanganye is that in bringing the women together into a cooperative, they can pool their resources, knowledge and skills to learn from one another and benefit from each other. The cooperative gives the women training; ideas; and a safe place to work. The work that they do is wonderful, fun, and colourful.

AIC helped the women with 2 sewing machines and a storage cupboard.

We have supported Tabitha Women, a project of Bridge of Hope by by providing them with sewing machines.

We have supported Best Potters by giving them pottery materials.