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Rwanda Women’s Network (RWN) is a national humanitarian Non-Governmental Organisation dedicated to the promotion and improvement of the socio-economic welfare of women in Rwanda through enhancing their efforts to meet their basic needs. The Network came into being in 1997 taking over from its parent organisation, the US-based Church World Service (CWS), which had initiated a two-year program (from 1994 to 1996) in the country following the 1994 genocide.Todate, RWN caters to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence across the country in the recognition that women and children bore the brunt of the genocide, and remain the most vulnerable and marginalised groups within Rwanda civil society.The Rwanda Women’s Network implements four core programs.

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International workshop on SGBVand
Hosted by RWN,the International Workshop, held in July 2008 in Kigali

Ten Years of Community Engagement, Leadership and Action
RWN celebrated its 10th Anniversary in November 2007,

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Access to financial credit and economic self-reliance is integral to the Rwanda Women’s Network programmes. In the aftermath of the genocide, it came to the forefront the issue of women being economically disadvantaged, illiterate and lacking in marketable skills.	Human and legal rights education, as well as awareness of issues on justice, is fundamental to full participation in all aspects of daily life. Most women lack knowledge of human and legal rights and therefore do not view the extreme atrocities against them during the 1994, More	Human health is defined to mean the wellbeing of the human body (physical, emotional and mental). Through the Polyclinic of Hope, the focus is on medical, counseling and improving socio-economic welfare of women in order to increase responsiveness and , More




	Date : 21 January 2007




	Date : 29 March 2007




	Date : 13 Decemeber 2006

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