Women Developing Rwanda

Fifteen female students at the Learning Centre have come together to form Women Developing Rwanda, a women's empowerment group. The group members have chosen aims for the organization.

Women Developing Rwanda (WDR) will:

• look for solutions to discrimination against women in Rwanda,
• help women to continue to improve their lives,
• encourage group members to choose one thing that is important to them (their career, their studies, their families, etc.) and help them develop these things in their lives, and
• connect with a group of women abroad to share ideas and learn from others.
  

As a facilitator for this group I have had the privilege of getting to know wonderful women of different ages, backgrounds and goals. The group members are excited to work together to encourage each other. We have all set personal and professional goals and made strategic plans to reach those goals. I will keep this blog updated as we move toward some of those goals, both as a group and individually.

Stacey

First post!

Greetings from Kigali! Sophie, Stacey and I have arrived safely in Kigali and have spent our first day together in town aclimatising and brainstorming some new ideas for teaching this month. It is wonderful to be back in Rwanda again - the red earth and the rich smell unique to this country makes me feel instantly at home. I am ridiculously excited about our projects this year and really looking forward to working with all our volunteers, who I hope will be challenged and enlightened by the teaching in which they will participate.

Being a bit of a technophobe, but keen to learn!, I am also extremely overexcited that I am the first blogger on our N4A blog - I invite you all to share you pre-travel thoughts and feelings, it would be fantastic if we can all contribute to this blog, it'll be a great way to record the volunteering and quite fun too! Looking forward to seeing all our vols soon. Roz