“USAID Gimbuka ‘is the title of the program launched three days ago by Caritas Rwanda, together with the U.S. organization USAID.
The project has duration of three years (2013-2015) and aims to support people in need for the creation of an independent development and nutrition of families.
The initiative “will take place in fourteen districts of the country.”
Father Oreste Incimata, Secretary General of Caritas Rwanda, has said since its creation in 1960, Cartas played a crucial role in three sectors – health, development and social work – involving over 26 thousand basic ecclesial communities.
Highlighting, then, “the maturity” by Caritas, which since 2000 is completely self-sufficient and does not receive external aid, father Incimata stressed that “this maturity has enabled the partnership with USAID.”
Specifically, the three-year plan to improve the nutritional status of pregnant women living with HIV, as well as to help 36 thousand children under 5 years of age and attend over 14 thousand orphans, providing school supplies to children and adults with the skills necessary to attain, in the family, economic self-sufficiency and food.
The director of USAID, Richard Silver, has highlighted the primary objective of Caritas Rwanda noting that it has reduced by 44% the rate of stunting for children affected by malnutrition in Rwanda.
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