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.
