We drive up a rough, rutted road of red dirt to a simple, rectangular, breeze-block building with a corrugated iron roof – the community meeting place or village hall. The sound of roosters crowing drifts across the valley, along with the aromatic smoke from cooking fires. Below us on the valley floor, women in dazzling […]

For twenty years, we have worked in Rwanda. Yet, we have been aware there is also great need for what we offer in the less well-known country next door, Burundi. Like Rwanda, it is green and mountainous, with most of its population depending on subsistence agriculture. It exports coffee, tea and fish, and it had […]

The word network implies joining people together for a purpose. That’s what we have tried to do since we began working in Africa. We decided to find credible local partners rather than starting from scratch. In our case, poverty was the mother of invention – we didn’t have the money to build an empire. We made connections and […]