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...
by Kelly Bean, Executive Director | Aug 30, 2016 | African Road projects, News and Updates
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...
by Jennifer Hatton | Jul 13, 2016 | African Road projects, Learning Trips, News and Updates, People
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....
