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From the street back to the family, and from the family toward lasting economic self-reliance. Each programme is a step along the same road.
Programme 01
Youth support
OPDE Rwanda works in the street to identify the children it aims to help, accompanies them through the process of socio-educational reintegration, and favours their return to family — whether close or extended.
Since the organisation was founded, more than 1,400 children and young adults have been supported and reintegrated into the school system at primary, secondary, university and vocational level. Family reintegration remains our central mission.
Housing for host families
As part of prevention, OPDE has built and rehabilitated more than 50 homes for host families. We also encourage the parents of these families to form cooperatives and take up income-generating activities, so that self-reliance lasts.
Programme 02
Vocational training centre
Each year the OPDE Rwanda training centre welcomes around a hundred young women and men. We currently run three sections: masonry, welding and hospitality.
Vocational training is used as a means of learning a trade, so that out-of-school vulnerable children can be reintegrated socially and economically — with a skill that holds its value.
Noting the growth of industries such as tourism and the culinary arts, OPDE opened a hospitality workshop at Mbazi, offering both theoretical and practical training to students at the centre.
Programme 03
Women's empowerment
OPDE Rwanda and its partner L'AMIE Canada have set up a programme for the empowerment of women in three particularly poor rural sectors of Huye District: Mbazi, Ngoma and Mukura.
Each year, 100 of the most vulnerable women are selected and grouped into cooperatives, in order to receive training and financial support that improves their standard of living and that of their community.
The programme also provides vocational training to these women's children — one child per woman — along with training in sexual and reproductive health, nutrition, law and gender equality, and legal aid for those in need.
Programme 04
Farming and livestock
OPDE Rwanda practises farming and livestock rearing as income-generating activities. These activities also familiarise our beneficiaries with running an income-generating activity of their own.
The maize fields of the Mbazi women's cooperative and the piggery run by the beneficiary cooperative are two examples: production that feeds families, generates income, and teaches the practice of collective enterprise at the same time.
1,400 +
children and young adults supported since 1997
50 +
homes built and rehabilitated for host families
400
women supported in cooperatives every year
3
rural sectors: Mbazi, Ngoma and Mukura
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