VICOBA begins in Kenya!
Last week, African Road Changemaker David Clemy travelled to Kibwezi, Kenya to lead the first session of VICOBA training. Kibwezi is a rural community in dry, Eastern Kenya on the road between Mombasa and Nairobi. Access to water is one of life’s major challenges in...
Meet Leigh Harvey, African Road Rockstar
Meet Leigh Harvey, longtime friend of African Road, Women’s Bakery Champion, and all-around rock star fundraiser. Leigh has been a supporter of African Road since the early days. In 2010, she gathered some friends* to travel to Rwanda with Kelly Bean and went back...
In the past week alone…
In the past week alone... More than 150 children from the indigenous Batwa tribe in Burundi started school. Crops are being planted in three rural Batwa villages. Progress is being made in Kenya on a well project. Funding was committed for teacher training for...
Bonding over brunch, building a better world
Last Saturday morning, African Road supporters filed in out of the Portland rain with brunch dishes and a heartfelt curiosity to learn about East Africa. After coffee was poured, plates were filled up, and the mingling settled down, everyone gathered in Dennis and...
Now Open — The Corner Store!
One amazing little store in Rwanda, full of potential, made possible with the help of many friends of African Road! While we affectionately dubbed this effort 'The Corner Store', Providance selected the name (drum roll...) Boutique Murisanga, which means ‘The Welcome...
Friendship, Field Work, and Finding Solutions
Imagine that you are invited to a country halfway across the world. You are eagerly welcomed by new friends to learn about a different way of life. Friendships are formed, ideas are born, occasionally embarrassing cultural missteps made, and lives are forever changed....
The Corner Store — We Did It!
We raised $20,000 to fund a business to support genocide orphans and widows in Rwanda!
Turning Charity on its Head
When I told people I was going to Portland, they understandably assumed it was for the coffee, the craft beer and the vineyards. It wasn’t. Last October I flew out to Rwanda with the intention of taking photos that would quickly change the world, establish me as an...
African Road is Growing in Burundi
To be suddenly taken from your home and left on barren land with no skills or tools to survive. To be despised and ridiculed and thought of as nothing, with no right for your children to attend school or get medical care, with no ability to vote to change your...
$10,000 by March 1st
What You Can Do Right Now $10,000 by March 1st for the Batwa ID Kit Campaign IDENTITY – DIGNITY – OPPORTUNITY The residents of three rural villages in Burundi, more than 600 people, lack basic civil rights. The Batwa people are a marginalized minority in their native...