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...
by Jennifer Hatton | Nov 13, 2016 | African Road projects, News and Updates
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...
by Kelly Bean, Executive Director | Oct 5, 2016 | News and Updates
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...
