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Women Empowerment

Will — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 03:16:52 +0000

Esther’s Aid has initiated the activities related to women empowerment Esther’s Aid has pioneered several women empowerment activities over the years. Rwanda has a large number of marginalized women and girls who are mostly affected by sex trafficking, lack of education, and who are experiencing early pregnancies and more. We empower them by providing different hands-on skills training.

Activities:

Hands on skills & vocational training in Bakery & Pastry, Accessories Design, Tie & Dye, etc.
Entrepreneurship and income generating activities – training
Cooperative creation
Micro finances linkages
Startup kits & Seed Capital
Business coaching & mentorship

Beneficiaries:

School dropouts
Teen moms (early pregnancy)
Sex traffic victims

Volunteer Engagement

Will — Mon, 25 May 2020 19:22:44 +0000

The Volunteer Engagement project aims to provide our students with better insight on the advantages of volunteerism. We teach them that the right match can help them network; find friends, connect with the community, learn new skills, and even advance their careers.

Each year Esther’s Aid recruits and trains 30 youths (university graduates) on the need to volunteer. After training they volunteer at an organization and build their capacity in job matching. We firmly believe that volunteering and giving back to others can improve their mental and physical health.

Project Activities:

Intensive training
Skills matching
Mapping opportunities

Project Beneficiaries

University and high institution learning graduates

Youth Sports

Will — Mon, 25 May 2020 19:16:33 +0000

We believe that youth sports participation comes with a variety of health and social benefits. This project creates awareness among youth, helps them to develop and play leadership role, sportsmanship, love and unity.

Project Activities

Youth for the Future Trophy – Esther’s Aid Eagles Fire Soccer Tournament is organized among youth soccer teams in the communities and schools.

Project Beneficiaries

Gahanga Youth (aged 12 – 18) and Kacyiru students
Jabana Youth (Aged 12 – 18)

US Embassy State Department – Rwanda

Will — Mon, 25 May 2020 04:12:59 +0000

Education Support Project For Youth Refugees is a U.S Embassy State Department funded project through Julia Taft Grant, the project aims to provide education inclusion for the refugee youth in Rwanda and at the same time provide employability skills which allows them to be integrated into the job market for either wage employment or self-employment.

Project Activities

Culinary Arts Training
Entrepreneurial skills
Internship placement in Kigali’s finest hotels
Job placement

Key Stakeholders

U.S Embassy (Sponsor)
Esther’s Aid (Implementer)
UNHCR (in charge of Refugee in Rwanda, in partnership with them we reached out to the beneficiaries)
MINEMA (Ministry in Charge of Emergency Management in Rwanda, we are partnering with them as government entity that is in charge of refugee management)

Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze

Will — Fri, 22 May 2020 04:37:11 +0000

Esther’s Aid is among implementing partners of the 5-year (2016-2021) USAID Huguka Dukore Project that will provide employability skills to 40,000 vulnerable youth across 19 of 30 districts countrywide.

Project Activities

Work Readiness & Be Your Own Boss tTraining,
Work Based Learning (WBL)
Access to finance through formation of Savings and Loans Associations (SILC)
Post training accompaniment support to enable youth transition into jobs or business start-ups and coaching

Stakeholders

USAID
EDC
AKAZI KANOZE ACCESS

International Potato Center (CIP) & USAID

Will — Sun, 17 May 2020 01:41:44 +0000

In 2017 we forged a partnership with CIP Rwanda and were introduced to Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP). Through this partnership we were exposed to the great benefits of OFSP and immediately we became an implementation partner, incorporating it into our Culinary Arts program curriculum. This has led to us changing most of our students’ snacks to sweet potato-based products.

We’ve also incorporated OFSP in some of the assortments of baked goods we produce which includes breads, amadazi (fritters), chocolate finger cookies, cupcakes, doughnuts, etc. These are all sold at our Heavenly Bakery, an offshoot of our School of Culinary Arts.

We educate the community on the benefits of OFSP and provide them with recipes. The addition of OFSP into their daily diets has been very transformative health-wise because of it richness in Vitamin A which helps improve resistance to infectious diseases, decreases morbidity and prevents dry eye. We also train them on how to cultivate the crop not only for consumption but also to market it and become self-sustaining entrepreneurs.

The passion to achieve the Sweet Potato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) goal has propelled us to source and plant our own vines for greater production. This can really contribute to food security, which meets the goal of reaching 10 million households by 2020.

We were happy and humbled to be invited by SPHI to showcase our mouth-watering baked goods at its recent 10^th Annual Sweet Potato For Profit And Health Initiative Convention in Kigali, Rwanda.

Evangelism & Gospel Outreach

Will — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:43:59 +0000

Esther’s Aid is a Christian nonprofit organization where evangelism and gospel outreach are among our core priorities.

Project Activities:

Gospel outreach – To minister to those with Spiritual needs, provide counseling and build them up. We provide outreach to hospitals, health centers and prisons.
Evangelism, Crusades and Discipleship – Teaching the word of God through our Esther’s Aid Worship center. We also organize different prayer events.
Bible Study – regularly Esther’s Aid teaches Bible study to all our beneficiaries.

Poor Children Donation

Will — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:21:25 +0000

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Water Problem in Africa

Will — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:20:37 +0000

Creative Green Solutions

Will — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:20:00 +0000