PRACTICAL DAY THREE

On the 25th of May, we had a privilege of visiting Akabahizi Cell for a third time. There was a meeting being held by the community assembly. This is a thing they do every Tuesday of the week to analyse and study the community problems.

Their leaders share the reports made throughout the week and try to discuss with the rest of the community about how to overcome each of them. We caught up with them dealing with drug, women and children abuse.

This class for us was more of serving than learning. We already had the needed skills to interact with the community, and by chance they were welcoming and flexible.

We had a goal of playing a role play, where we prepared a gender based skit that was informing the audience how women experience violence because they mostly fear to take one step of working and chasing for money, which leads their lives into danger and slavery.

Each of us in the group had a role to interpret and we managed to push it through. At the end of the skit, we asked them the lesson they acquired from it, and the audience was willingly answering and we discovered that our target results were achieved.

As a concluding lesson day, we were impressed to have achieved all of our four goals and that people were actively responding to our contribution.

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PRACTICAL DAY TWO

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On the 18th of June 2019, we visited Akabahizi Cell. Our that day’s goal, we had to join citizens in the government program called INTEKO Y’ABATURAGE. The purpose of this program is to gather all citizens together and give them a platform to share their local and social problems; reporting to their local governments and how they can find out their solutions.

As golden hands group, we went there to serve how the citizens by teaching them what is violence, its types, causes and how to avoid it. We earlier made a research on the issue, and found out that a large number of the population do not know violence types and how they are experienced because they do not have permanent residence.

We had a chance of catching up with different society classes; women and men, and we shared with them what violence is and how to deal with it. Women as the victims of violence, were there and they shared their ideas regarding the issue. And also, the men, as the cause, were participating and lining up with us what concerns women violence.

Conclusively, we gave the local leaders time, and they continued on with other problems like sanitary, health and security.

LEARNING DAY ONE

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On the 06th of June 2019, we visited the Nyamirambo Rwanda Women Network office. The purpose of our visit was to study and learn his the classification and identification of community problems are done. We arrived there at around 11:00 am and we caught up with them making small teams according to their respective residences.

The assignment for these people was to evaluate the goals they have set the last time they attended the conference at the center, and see if they have achieved them. The ones that they had not achieved, were listed down, and were the goals for the next momentum of projects to be ran.

We learned how they communicate with all of the concerned authorities from the lower levels of governance; villages and gather together all the information regarding the issue they are dealing with. After this, they submit them to the RWN and try to explain to them what they think is missing and to be done as well.

After analysing and concluding the groups discussions, all of the groups had to present to us what they have achieved, and what they are willing to work on in the next series of social change.

It was a helpful experience to all of us because we learnt how to conduct surveys and find out what the society really needs and what to be done to help them overcome them.

The visit ended at 3:30 pm and we are looking towards working with them again.

MEETING PARTNER ORGANIZATION

On the 27th of May 2019, we visited RWANDA WOMEN NETWORK; an NGO that is committed to sustainable development of women in the country and by an influential purpose, the globe at large.
This Organization has been active for twenty years so far. Its main purposes is to help women learn and fight for their rights, as a way of enhancing their families development as well.
Andrew NDAHIRO, Program manager at RWN, tried to take us through the history and background of the organization. He told us that by now, they are dealing with gender based, financial and physical violence that women experience. This has enlarged their name to a bigger brand to people, where the government itself has started creating some partnerships with them, and it has worked on a needed expectation.
The organization has helped many women in 14 districts of the country by facilitating with them art centers and capital to start artistic businesses. According to different women who have been given aid, they witness a noticed positive change that occurred in their lives, after being given platforms to market their artistic ideas, and started generating income as well.
As Golden hands, we were impressed by the commitment of RWANDA WOMEN NETWORK had and still has of helping women around the country with making sure that they get to satisfy their daily basic needs. As a way of cooperating, we decided to join hands with them in their high end journey of bringing changes and being rainbows in some people’s lives; who are suffering, in storms. We have decided to help them work on the
They have accepted to work with us, where we shall be making moves on Mondays and Thursdays in the weeks and they will be the ones to make us know what we are supposed to do as well. We were pleasured to be in contact with this effective and positively changing Organization.