Millennium Villages Project

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Millennium Willages Rwanda
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The Millennium Village cluster in Rwanda is located in Mayange, a sector of Bugesera District located about 40 km south of the capital, Kigali. In a country known as the “pays des milles collines” (“land of 1,000 hills”), the terrain around Mayange is flatter and drier than most of Rwanda. The area suffers from sporadic rainfall and declining soil fertility, leading to endemic poverty, illness and a lack of economic opportunity. The project began working with an initial 5,000 people in Kagenge, one of Mayange’s five subdivisions in early 2006. The population was facing impending famine because of failing rains and a poor harvest the year before, and the health center was severely lacking in staff, medicines, equipment and supplies, and had no electricity or running water.

Unlike most of rural Rwanda, where individual homesteads are scattered across the hilly landscape, Mayange has several umudugudus, or settlements, of closely spaced dwellings, which the government built to house returnees after the 1994 genocide. Nearly 14 years after the genocide, Bugesera and Rwanda as a whole are intently focused on rebuilding and reconciliation.

Website address: www.millenniumvillages.org

Physical Address: Mayange Sector, Bugesera District-Eastern Province

Mailing Address: P.o Box 7393kigali Rwanda

Directions to find Country Office: No.2106, Rue du Lac Mpanga, Kiyovu, Kigali

Began work in Rwanda in year: 2006

Organization Leadership:

  • Country Director: Donald NDAHIRO
    Cell Phone: (+250) 788306724
  • Education Coordinator: John MUGABO
    Cell phone: (+250)788760273

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The Wellspring Foundation for Education

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The Wellspring Foundation for Education

The Wellspring Foundation for Education was formed in 2004 in response to a Rwandan vision to build this beautiful nation through high quality, christian values-based education.  Our mission is “the development of schools and empowerment of Rwandan teachers”.  We believe that the purpose of education is to help people genuinely develop the creativity, principles, and capabilities needed to positively impact their own communities and adapt to an ever changing world.

Website: www.thewellspringfoundation.com

Physical Address: Plot 9466, Nyarutarama, Kigali, RWANDA

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 7489, Kigali, RWANDA

Directions to Country Office: When heading towards the airport, turn left at the Gishushu intersection towards the MTN in building in Nyarutarama.  Before you reach any of the speed bumps, you will see signs for the Wellspring Academy and Christian Life Assembly on the right across from the Tanzanian Embassy.  Turn right and come down the tarmac road.  Turn right again through the gate at the bottom of the hill. The Wellspring Foundation is located in  on the left side of the compound as you drive down the parking lot.

Began work in Rwanda in: 2004

Organization Leadership:

  • Country Director – Jeffery Komant
    Cell Phone – 0788475155
  • Program Director  – Kirsten Lake
    Cell Phone – 0783276260
  • ICT Manager (rencp website administrator) – Stephane Nyembo
    Cell phone – 0788774336

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