2025 Annual Report
Dear Friend, It is humbling and amazing to reflect on what has become possible together. 2025 marked 15 years of African Road; 15 years of incredible transformation fueled by friendship. The African Road story began in Rwanda in friendship with one local leader...
How One Friend’s Childhood on a Farm Helped a Pig Project in Burundi
A long time friend of African Road grew up on a farm. As a child, he saved enough money to buy a single pig. That pig, and the income it eventually produced, helped move his family forward economically and became a source of joy and satisfaction for him. It's a fact...
Transformation through land rights in Burundi
In February, African Road Executive Director Kelly Bean traveled to Burundi for an inspiring working trip. One incredible highlight was walking 14 acres of newly purchased land in Mwendo Village. The African Road community banded together to raise funds for this...
2024 Annual Report
Dear Friend, It is a joy to share the African Road 2024 Annual Report, with sincere gratitude for your partnership in this life-changing work. The progress made in 2024 paved the way for many incredible projects, stories, and successes now present in 2025. 2024 was a...
Team Dodo Reflections
Every African Road Learning Trip provides a first-hand learning experience, full of delight and new friendships, serious stories and reflection, and lots of laughter. We get to hear from real people who inspire us and witness the evidence of what steady, thoughtful...
Fresh Water Well Transforms Communities in Burundi
A new solar-powered, clean water well in Mwendo, Burundi is changing lives for the village’s indigenous Batwa community and their surrounding neighbors. From its initial well-bore in the Fall of 2024, to a celebratory ribbon cutting ceremony in February of this year,...
I Witnessed the Ripple Effect of VICOBA Plus in REACH Unity Groups
In February, I had the opportunity to participate in a working trip to Rwanda with African Road. As part of my role as the Grants Manager and Impact Curator, this trip was an important step in continuing to develop African Road’s processes for measuring the impact of...
Community Solutions to Empower Women’s Health in Burundi
Indigenous Batwa leaders are tackling an often neglected essential need in Burundi. A new initiative is taking shape in three indigenous communities, with the aim to enhance women and girls' dignity, improve women's health and girls’ participation in school, reduce...
2023 Annual Report
African Road believes that supporting Indigenous leadership and community-led development are the best ways to ensure lasting change. When Doriné was a baby, the people in her village were living in extreme poverty. Through African Road’s partnership with the ASSEJEBA...
Cherishing the Impact of ID Kits
In August of 2023, 1,440 Batwa indigenous people from 18 villages received legal identity, access to essential social services, and basic rights for the first time through ID Kits. Eight months later, the ongoing impact of those ID Kits are still being felt and cherished. In March 2024, Changemaker Evariste Ndikumana and the ASSEJEBA team met with recipients of those ID Kits from August 2023, and listened as they shared on how their lives have changed.