Youth and capacity building
Young people who can train the next group themselves.
Rwandan agriculture is young, and so is our approach. We run practical training for students and young farmers, then hand them the trainer role. This pillar also carries our community wellbeing work, including health support for households that need it.
A young person who has taught a session in their own sector is worth more to that community than a visiting expert who leaves on Friday. That is the whole idea behind this pillar.
Every cohort finishes by running a session for a group of farmers. We sit at the back. It is the part participants find hardest and the part they remember.
Students from our partner universities join field teams for a season. They get real data and real farmers. We get people who ask good questions.
Some of what a community needs is not agricultural. In Ngamba we found households that had fallen behind on their health insurance payments, so we covered the premiums. It was not a farming project. It was the thing that was needed.
Projects
Every project below sits under this pillar.
Households in Ngamba Sector that survived the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi had fallen behind on their community health insurance. We sat with them, listened, and covered the premiums for the families who needed it most.
Young farmers and agriculture students learn the full conservation agriculture curriculum, then run a session for a farmer group themselves while we sit at the back and take notes.
Newsletter
A short email every month or so. Training reports, harvest results, and what we learned along the way. No noise.
