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...
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.
A Rwandan Experience
African Road friend and supporter Kerry Rae Connolly joined in for the first working trip to East Africa of 2024. This special trip included a meaningful field dedication ceremony for the Togetherness soccer pitch. Kerry Rae met Changemakers and their communities, and...