Note: The menu shows the 36 African countries where Africare has worked, not the other African countries.

 


(Sheila McKinnon photo)

Rwanda

Africare has worked in Rwanda since 1984. The first programs provided emergency aid, and then help with resettlement, to several thousand returned refugees from Uganda at the Nasho Refugee Camp. Elsewhere in Rwanda, particularly in the province of Ruhengeri, major agricultural and environmental development projects followed, helping farmers to grow enough food while protecting the environment. In the wake of the 1994 genocide, Africare responded with emergency aid to the victims of war, postwar reconstruction and a major initiative to support improved governance at the local level. Rwanda has high levels of HIV/AIDS prevalence as well as many AIDS orphans; for the past 10 years, Africare has provided a wide range of support to prevent HIV, to care for those infected or affected by HIV/AIDS and to help AIDS orphans.

Current Africare assistance to Rwanda:

  • Food security
  • Water resource development
  • HIV prevention
  • Care for people living with HIV or AIDS
  • Africare HIV/AIDS Service Corps
  • Assistance to AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children

           

           

(Updated, Dec. 18, 2007)