Wine producing cooperative

Covaga is a members owned cooperative. It is a newly established cooperative that focuses on turning the challenges created by the water hyacinth into social economic opportunities. We are busy developing capacity building opportunities for the coop membe ...

A cooperative of 43 expert weavers in Nyamata, Rwanda, since August 2007. The women at Covanya not only hand-craft stunning traditional Agaseke Baskets, Plateau Baskets, and the best-selling Basket Ornaments (perfect for the holidays!), but they also just ...

Agaseke (Rwandan traditional basketry) is currently considered as one of Rwanda's hottest export commodities. Also known as "Peace Baskets", they have become a critical economic lifeline to many families. For example, in Ngoma, there are 15 cooperative so ...

Several years ago, the local parish of the Catholic church chose these four young people, among others, for a year-long training program for vulnerable youth. When the training was complete, some of the students decided to join together in an cooperative ...

From 1994, the association grew very fast from 330 women members to reach 3,000 in 2007. After the genocide, there were many widows who were looking for emotional support especially those who had been raped and infected with HIV/AIDS. After a short while, ...

The association's main objective is to remember, fighting and confronting the genocide consequences among the genocide survivors. Dukundane Family has also set up income generating projects and worked on improving social cohesion among members. The projec ...

Cooperative, 30 members. Lets be stronger together.

In our co-operative,we cultivate tree tomato, mountain pawpaw, goose berry. All we perform them nearest the Virunga National Park,and we do order to preserve that park so that animals feel well,because some of our members were hunters. Our co-operative co ...

Coperative association Kigali

Organisation of craft coops in Rwanda

ICYUZUZO est une association pour la promotion et la protection des droits de la veuve. Elle a une longue et particulière histoire. Elle a été créée pour faire face à la détresse morale des veuves, à leur vulnérabilité, à la législation et la coutume rwan ...

The mission of the Imbaraga Farmer Federation is the professionalization of the farming profession to improve the welfare of farmers in rural areas and to change perceptions of the perception. Founded in 1992 by Rwandan farmers, Imbaraga is a peasant orga ...

In 2003, the Cyeza Parish of the Catholic Church provided training in woodcarving to two disabled members of the community. Those two men went on to train three others, and the Inganzo woodcarvers' association was born. This Association specializes in car ...

The Ingenzi Knit Union, a knitting cooperative in Rwanda. Ingenzi Knit Union works closely with Rwanda Knits, a U.S. based non-profit which provides hand-operated, American-made knitting machines, technical, and business training to low-income Rwandan wom ...

The Ingabokarugo Helping Our Homes Cooperative is made up of women who endeavor to contribute to the livelihoods of their families through weaving. Although much of the weaving is done by each member in her home, the group comes together once a week to br ...

Cooperative

Ituze is a registered cassava farming cooperative.

Jyambere Mutegarugori means Women in Development in Kinyarwandan, the official language of Rwanda. This group of 93 women is located in the western Rwandan village of Muramba, an area gravely affected by the genocide of 1994. Many of the women involved wi ...

The members of the KAKIRA cooperative are women. Most of them are widows, following the tragedy of the genocide in 1994. The cooperative was formed to continue the tradition of "IMIGONGO" painting, thus keeping alive the knowledge and techniques applied b ...