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 Guest Author | 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 Guest Author | 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 Guest Author | 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...
