by Communications | Feb 16, 2017 | African Road projects, Learning Trips
This post was written by photographer Katie Garner who is working on photo assignment with African Road in East Africa this month. Over the course of 2 days, we visited 3 Batwa villages. The Batwa, as you may be aware, are indigenous to East Africa and make up approx...
by Craig Spinks | Feb 7, 2017 | African Road projects, Learning Trips, News and Updates
Sitting around a table stretching 24 feet are 32 girls between about the ages of six and twenty. Each has a story of great suffering, but you wouldn’t know that from the tone of this gathering. They are laughing, playing games, and interacting like sisters. It’s...
by Kelly Bean, Executive Director | Dec 29, 2016 | African Road projects, News and Updates, People
“Hello, my name is Parfaite Nimbona, and I am a single mom and a member of Pilgrims VICOBA group in Burundi. Over the last five years I have tried multiple small businesses (selling clothes, women’s products…) but because they all seemed to fail in the first...
by Timira Cobbs | Dec 22, 2016 | African Road projects, News and Updates, People
As a donor and volunteer for African Road, it doesn’t get much better than this: Pulling up to the Togetherness Cooperative in person for the first time, feeling the breeze, seeing the view, smelling the farm, and knowing it really is real. On Tuesday, I was...
by Jennifer Hatton | Dec 5, 2016 | African Road projects, News and Updates
Sunny skies, big smiles, and flourishing businesses – that’s what greeted African Road VICOBA trainer David Clemy on his recent trip to Tanzania. Last year, 63 women and girls in Tanzania participated in VICOBA small business training. The participants are...
by Jennifer Hatton | Nov 28, 2016 | African Road projects, News and Updates
Aaaaaand we’re off! 21 women and young people have begun training to start a bakery business in Rwanda. The bakery business will create jobs for women, provide nutritionally enhanced bread – a commodity that is in high demand but short supply in Rwanda – and impart...
