Great news: 20 more women have joined the Beacon Program! Through the Beacon Program, unemployed women start small businesses selling the K-Light solar lantern in their communities. The women work together in a cooperative to run the business, and the addition of this new group marks the opening of the second branch of Ingenzi za …
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May 2010: The Ingenzi Cooperative will start a new branch with 20 new women in the Ngoma district of the Eastern Province. Twenty new women have been chosen by the programs manager and executive committee of the existing branch in Kigali. These women will be receiving business training and their grant in May 2010. This …
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Koinonia Foundation has a YouTube channel! We’ve been busily uploading our videos and plan to upload some more soon. These FlipCams we’ve got have proven to be very popular – and very useful. We’re even filming some of our informational video on them. Check out a video we uploaded of the training session last month …
Read MoreFirst Trip to Rwanda Comments Off
Hi everyone, My name is Nicole. I’m the intern. I’m a senior at Grand Valley State University and have been very lucky to participate in this internship program with the Koinonia Foundation this semester. A large portion of my internship involved creating business lessons to teach to the existing, and also the new, Beacon Women. …
Read MoreRwanda, March 2010: Beacon Program Training and Fundraising Underway Comments Off
It’s been a week since Nicole and I returned from Rwanda to Michigan.
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