The Board of Directors, Management and Staff of UMUHUZA would like to wish you Merry Christmas and prosperious New Year 2022.
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Umuhuza welcomed High Commission Canada and Right to Play at Kingabo Reading Club in Bugesera District
On Friday, 19 November, Umuhuza Organisation hosted a delegation from the Canadian High Commission and Right To Play delegates for a field visit in Bugesera District, Ntarama Sector where the team took time to visit Kingabo Reading Club, home visit with reading corner and community library and interacted with children, parents, community literacy volunteers and local officials as well. Kingabo…
On Thursday 26 August, 20 community librarian volunteers from four districts including Gasabo, Bugesera, Ruhango and Kayonza completed a three-day training, aimed at providing the trainees with effective community library management skills. The participants, 10 males and 10 females, were made up of community literacy volunteers and youth volunteers. The training was organised and conducted by Umuhuza organization in collaboration…
Umuhuza in partnership with Save the Children has been training parent facilitators, and positive discipline champions from different parts of the country on how to advocate and contribute to efforts to promote child rights protection. Since 2017, the project, “Strengthening an Accountable Governance that Protects and Delivers Child Rights.” (Uburere Budahutaza Umwana) has been carried out in 18 sectors of…
June 16, Umuhuza and its partners and stakeholders jointly organized activities to celebrate the Day of the African Child in different parts of the country. At the National level, the day was celebrated under the theme, “Isibo, a pivot to child development.” This year’s celebration was held at Isibo level (the smallest administrative units) and on the day children under…
Members of Children Rights Protection Committees in Burera and Ruhango districts moved to draw and implement conclusive strategies to improve the welfare of children and generally safeguard their rights. The members include security organs, Women Councils, Umuhuza Parents Facilitators representatives at Sector level, local leaders, and civil society among other partners. The move came after discussions that brought together stakeholders to…
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Bugesera: How community volunteers assisted children in developing their writing and reading skills amidst lockdown
Despite the Covid 19 outbreak which led to nationwide lockdowns, children in Bugesera District benefited from a program designed to develop their literacy knowledge with the help of Umuhuza community volunteers and their parents. In 2020 as part of a literacy month, Umuhuza in collaboration with its partners including Right to play conducted a reading campaign in Bugesera district to…
In order for community-based libraries to function properly, community librarians need to receive skills to ensure that they understand how to help people visiting their respective libraries adopt a reading culture. To help them, Umuhuza in collaboration with other partners, in 2020, organized three-day training on library management and other practices for community libraries across the country. The training,…
Parents, students and local leaders in Ruhango, Kirehe, Ngororero and Burera Districts have expressed their gratitude towards the new community libraries established by Umuhuza under Mureke Dusome Project to boost reading and writing skills. The four libraries were established in 2020 by Umuhuza organization in partnership with Ruhango, Kirehe, Ngororero and Burera Districts, National Itorero Commission, Save the Children and Kigali Public…
Prosper Nsabimana can now write his own story fluently. He recently wrote an emotional story about a young lady named Carine, a victim of child labor despite the presence of her siblings who barely assisted her. The 12-year-old writer said he would not have been able to experience such advances in literacy without the help of the organizers of literacy…