News & Updates

The Board and staff of Umuhuza organization would like to wish you all, partners and stakeholders, a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year 2024. We acknowledge your valuable contributions towards achieving the organization’s mission and vision.

The teen mothers are the beneficiaries of the ‘Wiceceka project,’ implemented by Umuhuza organisation with the support of Bank of Kigali.

The quarterly planning workshop, which takes place from December 11 to 13, is organised as the Gikuriro Kuri Bose program enters its third year of implementation.

6 October,2023 Umuhuza Organisation awarded six community libraries for their outstanding work in promoting a culture of reading to enhance children and adults’ knowledge in the community of Rutunga sector, Gasabo district. The awarding ceremony was held as a cessation of the inter-library reading, writing and drawing competition, which aims to raise awareness in the community awareness on the importance…

August 8 Umuhuza Organisation began a four-day training for 20 community literacy champions from five districts: Burera, Ruhango, Kirehe, Gasabo and Ngororero. The training was held under the project “Access to Digital and Inclusive community Literacy Environment,” funded by Rwanda National Commission for UNESCO, which is being implemented in Rutunga sector to increase community libraries with inclusive and digital literacy resources.…

May 31, 2023, Umuhuza Organisation awarded certificates of appreciation to 120 volunteers (60 men and 60 women) from 4 sectors in Kirehe district who facilitated the implementation of the year-long project, Championing Play. Volunteers trained parents on toy making using locally available materials under 17 parenting sessions and conducted home visits twice a week. The project was implemented in partnership…

25 May 2023, Umuhuza Organization presented to Kirehe officials the outcomes of a year-long project “Championing Play,” implemented in partnership with Save the Children and funded by the LEGO foundation to promote play-based learning for children aged 0-3. Under the project, a total of 1,200 parents from 1,200 households in four sectors of Kirehe district, including Nasho, Nyamugali, Gatore and…

The USAID funded Gikuriro Kuri Bose program conducted a weeklong training (from March 6,2023) of Early Childhood Development (ECD) staff on producing locally made play materials. The training aimed to enhance the capacity of the team to support ECD service providers and parents to produce and avail locally made play materials. The Gikuriro Kuri Bose provides ECD services to children…