Rwanda is especially vulnerable to climate change. Increasingly severe floods, droughts, and landslides are directly impacting life across the country, including the work that PICO Rwanda has done…
Overcoming poverty in Rwanda
“This project has changed my life because ignorance is a disease… Now, we are happy and work together. We are able to build houses…. people who do not live in the cooperative come to buy tiles from us and they live in better houses too. We have done a lot for this community. It has been great.” – Mukamuganga Epiphanie, Nyange, Rwanda
The Nyange women’s cooperative is building homes for the poorest in the community. They just completed a storage shed and are building a kiln to make roofing tiles for sale to generate income for their members.