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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. Economic empowerment is necessary if the women are to attain a sense of security, including it being an important key in the healing process. Rwanda Women Network recognizes that women have specific basic needs for sustenance and for the management of their health. The Network therefore enables the women to access financial credit, in order for them to develop income-generating activities. Other than microcredit finance, the program also includes shelter construction and houses rehabilitation, training in business and management skills, and organisational capacity building for the women in their enterprises.
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Village
of Hope, Kagugu
Shelter construction and rehabilitation provide important space in the
peace building program. The beneficiaries include survivors of SGBV, returnees
to Rwanda (both old and new cases), widows, child-headed households and
orphans. The construction of housing units at Kagugu, known as the Village
of Hope, is benefiting 120 people in the Kigali Urban Prefecture.
The construction of the Polyclinic of Hope Centre at the Village will
improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Rwanda Women Network in the
delivery of services to women survivors of violent crimes. Though yet
fully equipped to cope with the demand, the Centre will benefit women
in Kigali Urban and Rural Provinces. The new medical wing is the first
in a trend that will see the replication of the Polyclinic of Hope in
other areas in Rwanda..
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