Helping Rwandan women’s thriving pineapple businesses
Thursday, March 7th, 2013 Posted in Agriculture, Food security, Rwanda, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5875" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Uwamwezi solar drying her pineapples"][/caption] An Oxfam project in Rwanda is helping entrepreneurial rural women get access to the techniques, markets and technology they need to set up thriving pineapple businesses. Women ...
2012- Our year in pictures
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 Posted in DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Photos, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania | No Comments »As 2012 ends, a look back at some of the events that have shaped our work in the region over the past 12 months - from ongoing emergencies in South Sudan and DRC, to working with amazing women food producers ...
A refugee camp in the country of a thousand hills
Thursday, October 18th, 2012 Posted in DR Congo, Refugees/IDPs, Rwanda | 1 Comment »[caption id="attachment_5318" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Kigeme refugee camp"][/caption] Rwanda is famous as the country of a thousand hills, but arriving in Kigeme I wasn’t quite prepared for what that meant for a refugee camp hosting more than 14,000 people. To say the camp ...
In pictures: Congolese refugees in Rwanda
Thursday, October 11th, 2012 Posted in DR Congo, Rwanda | No Comments »Around 14,000 refugees now shelter in Kigeme camp in southern Rwanda, after they fled the recent surge in violence in eastern DRC. Oxfam is responding in Kigeme to provide clean water, improve sanitation and promote good public health: ...
Crisis in the Great Lakes – an update
Saturday, September 15th, 2012 Posted in Conflict, DR Congo, Refugees/IDPs, Rwanda, Uganda | No Comments »In the past few months, a surge in violence in eastern DRC has forced nearly half a million people from their homes, with severe humanitarian consequences across the region. Civilians face killings, forced recruitment, extortion, pillaging and sexual violence at ...
The growing crisis in the Great Lakes
Monday, August 27th, 2012 Posted in Conflict, DR Congo, Refugees/IDPs, Rwanda, Uganda | Comments OffMore people are displaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) right now than at any time over the past three years, and tens of thousands more people have fled to neighbouring countries. Oxfam’s Policy Advisor in DRC, Samuel Dixon, ...
Oxfam responds, as Congo refugees continue to arrive in Rwanda
Monday, June 25th, 2012 Posted in Conflict, DR Congo, Refugees/IDPs, Rwanda | 1 Comment »The recent surge in fighting in the Kivu region of eastern DRC, between various rebel factions, army mutineers and the national army, has caused hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. While most are displaced within DRC, more ...
New technology revolutionising Rwandan pineapple production
Monday, May 21st, 2012 Posted in Agriculture, Rwanda | 1 Comment »[caption id="attachment_4304" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Pineapples at Shekina factory"][/caption] On the winding road between Kigali and the DRC border, behind the unassuming gates of a compound in Rulindo, a new technology is on the verge of revolutionising pineapple production to benefit poor ...
Radio in Rwanda: A soap opera to heal community tensions
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 Posted in Peacebuilding, Rwanda | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_4272" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Actors play out tensions in the soap opera"][/caption] Every Wednesday the radios in Rwanda come to life as characters, familiar as old friends, emerge for another installment of the soap opera ‘Musekeweya’ - or ‘New Dawn’. An ...
The first female carpenter, and other amazing Rwandan women
Monday, March 26th, 2012 Posted in Rwanda, Women's rights | 2 Comments »[caption id="attachment_4083" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Odette displays her carpentry skills"][/caption] Oxfam and partners recently launched a competition to find Rwanda’s Female Entrepreneur Champion – a celebration of the women who are driving Rwanda’s development, setting up small businesses, and leading their communities. ...