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Urwego Bank has unveiled a new and improved client-focused banking experience for its customers as it celebrates 20 years of service to Rwanda.

Under the new banking experience, Urwego customers will soon see several services upgrades including streamlined client registration and loan application processes facilitated by using mobile devices outside the bank’s offices to record customer details.

Commenting on the progress, Christine Baingana, the CEO of Urwego Bank has shared that the bank is committed to maintaining improved services. “We are so proud of the working relationship we have had in the past with our incredible customers, and we’re looking forward to a great future as we walk this journey together. We promise to continue refining our products and services to suit your needs more perfectly and help you save time and effort as you use them.”

She explained the bank hopes those improvements anticipate hope to see more children in school, more families moving into their dream homes, more farmers increasing their crop yields, more business owners boosting their incomes, and many more families equipped to flourish.

Urwego has made it easier for customers in need of education loan, obtaining funds to grow business and ensures security of savings.

The bank shares that its ongoing investments in technology upgrades have made it possible to offer a faster and safer banking experience to clients as Mobile banking and biometric fingerprint technology provide convenient and secure account access for Urwego clients in rural and urban areas alike.

Each of these enhancements flows from Urwego’s ongoing commitment to respond with excellence to its customers’ needs.

About Urwego

With 18 outlets and over 100 active agents across the country, Urwego is the largest microfinance institution in Rwanda, serving more than 400,000 clients.

These clients are building a brighter future for themselves with the help of business loans, savings services, training, mobile banking services, agricultural loans, education financing, foreign exchange products, asset financing, home improvement loans, and microinsurance from Urwego.

Since 1997, Urwego has served Rwandans who are economically active but underserved by traditional banking institutions. As a Christian microfinance bank, Urwego provides opportunities for families to transform their lives, their children’s futures and their communities. It offers a full range of financial services, including loans and savings programs, as well as training to maximize the impact of financial products and empower clients for success in business, household management, and health. Discover more at www.urwegobank.com.

If you would like to learn more about Urwego’s products and services, please don’t hesitate to call the toll free line: 5151.

Being a tenant, renting a dwelling place, has never been anyone’s wish; yet almost all people in the journey of their lives usually do rent. Every tenant always dreams of owning a house, dreams that remain unattainable to many, forcing them to endure the life-time burden.

Having noticed such a nightmare of house tenancy in Kigali, Remote Estates has started a ‘Be Your Own Landlord’ campaign that will avail 282 affordable housing units by 2019.

Units’ buyers are allowed to pay in five installments starting from groundbreaking to completion, according to Remote Estates, a subsidiary of Remote Group of companies which is widely known as an engineering, construction and project management firm.

The company has started with dwelling units adjacent to Masaka Hospital in Kicukiro District which include modern apartments, townhouses and single-family homes, all designed to provide a comfortable, green and affordable lifestyle.

Speaking to IGIHE, Claudette Rubangura, the Corporate Relations and Marketing Officer at Remote Estates, said the firm is committed to providing decent housing at affordable prices.

“Our vision is to pioneer a model of privately developed affordable housing adapted to Rwanda housing market, using cost effective building technology, ecologically driven urban design, and cultural responsive housing designs,” she said.

Rubangura said the units include 162 apartments, 54 attached townhouses, 24 semi-detached units, seven detached units as well as 34 units for shops or offices. The five-hectare site also offers 219 parking spaces and nice green space that covers 29% of the site.

Registration of buyers gets underway

Remote Estates has opened registration of units’ buyers and a number of clients have already got on the list.

“Many people have turned to us to ask about the requirements to own one among the upcoming houses in Masaka. We are now registering them,” she said.

She said that a client pays an advance of $100 for reservation of a unit of their choice while the unit’s cost will be paid in five installments with the first installment due at the beginning of construction works.

“Considering the quality of our units and the facilitation of paying in installments, the units are undoubtedly affordable. For example, the cost of a three-bedroom apartment with its facilities starts $35,000 (around Rwf30 million) and the apartment is incremental to allow the owner to customize the inside walling the way they want,”

‘Be Your Own Landlord’ campaign ongoing

Remote Estates has started a campaign dubbed “Be Your Own Landlord” that calls Rwandans to strive for owning houses and get rid of renting pressures.
Through the campaign, Remote Estates educates people on the possibilities of having their own houses.

Interested clients can find further information on www.remoteestate.com and by visiting Remote Estates’ offices at Bodifa Mercy House, 2nd floor, opposite the Ministry of Justice (MINIJUST). You can also email them via estates@remotegroup.com or phone +250 788 316 777

By Mugabo Jean d’Amour

Zirumuze New Life Clinic, a herbal medicine and treatment facility, has made strides in using natural medicine to successfully treat and manage various diseases.

Herbs constitute a major component of traditional and modern medicine. Rwanda’s development is founded on different pillars including the health sector that has modern and traditional medicine.

This complementarity between traditional and modern medicine is also reflected in the fact that the National Itorero Commission (NIC) considers practitioners from both for civic education to strengthen their values as they exercise the delivery of health services.

Fourteen years on the course of treating people with natural medicine from inside and outside the country, Samuel Nyakarundi, the Managing Director of Zirumuze Clinic, a researcher in natural medicine and public health officer, reveals to IGIHE that he has found out that well-practiced traditional medicine has a great bearing on human health.

He draws the conclusion from a number of people who have been treated successful by Zirumuze Clinic using natural medicine and healed of different ailments that had resisted modern medicine.

“Since we started, we have cured 90% of patients from Entamoeba Histolytica, using our natural medicine called Rubagantare (in local language). This medicine is in form of capsule and liquid. Patients who used it testify that Rubagantare cures amoeba and its effects,” said Nyakarundi.

While many people say that amoeba keeps reoccurring over some time even when it has been cured, Nyakarundi says that it is now seven years since they treated a good number of people from amoeba and it has never reoccurred as treated people testify.

Zirumuze Clinic has so far successfully treated hepatitis B and C at 60% and 65% respectively, blood pressure at 85%, epilepsies at 80%, sexual impotence with male and female at 90%. People with obesity have been cured at 75%, diabetes at 65%, prostate at 85%, kidney at 70%, stomachache at 80%, persistent headache at 75%, asthma at 70%, rheumatism at 75% and female genital diseases at 75%.

Nyakarundi explains that at least 9000 people have been cured from amoeba out of 10,000 who turned up to Zirumuze Clinic in the last 12 years. “We don’t just do a guess work, we do treat people and they attest to their recovery,” he said.

Nyakarundi says that Zirumuze Clinic employs only professionals who are able to explain to patients about the use of any medicine and its effects on their health.

Zirumuze Clinic premises

Kigali: Zirumuze Clinic headquarters are located at Muhima on the road to ‘La fraicheur’ near former Nyabugogo market. It is in a blue two-storey building above the Monica salons. You can phone us on +250 784 647 369

Musanze: Zirumuze Clinic is located in Musanze grocery market in room 69 just behind the parking of Taximoto. You can phone us on +250 784 647 166

Rubavu: Zirumuze Clinic is located in Gisenyi Bus Terminal in room 14. You can phone us on +250 784 647 265

You can also reach us via +250 788 863 221 or +250 783 072 727 and on WhatsApp at
+250 728 863 221 or visit our website: www.zirumuze.com. You can also send us email to: info@zirumuze.com or nyakasamyy@gmail.com or nyakasamy@yahoo.fr

By Jean d’Amour Mugabo

Call Rwanda is committed to reducing communication costs whether verbal or sending messages. It has this time round offered discounts to institutions ranging from small and big enterprises under a program dubbed ‘Digital IP Telephone Solutions’.

Here below are devices receiving discounts and availed to clients in need:

-IP Phones: These are mobile phones seen in banks and other corporate institutions used for communication among employees and external one for free.

-IP PBX :It is a machine enabling a mobile phones to operate through LAN
-Call Center Dialers :The machine is reserved for Call Center to five people
-GSM Gateways : It is a tool in which a Simcard can be inserted enabling call at one’s office
-PRI Cards: It is a system of using cards enabling an institution to have network from telecommunication companies

Call Rwanda encourages banks, hotels, insurance companies, hospitals among other institutions using old communication systems to embrace the technology because it cuts down communication costs. Indeed using such tools enables concentration on services and following up satisfaction of services delivered to clients via phone.

For more details call 0788302371 or email: crispin@call-rwanda.com

You can also visit them at Umutako Plaza, 8th Unit at the opposite side of Kigali city headquarters to see the devices.

Call Rwanda informs that an institution buying such devices receives free SMS services to advertise its activities.

As a way of promoting quick delivery of communicated messages to the mass, Call Rwanda has offered special discount for village and cell leaders in need of sending short messages communicating whereabouts community work will be held.

This comes as a solution for citizens who would fail to identify whereabouts to hold community work in case it is communicated by word of month in their absence.

Using the Bulk SMS of Call Rwanda can avail the message to phone users regardless of where they are located.

Call Rwanda encourages Rwandans in general to use its services and go in line with technology vision embraced by the government.

Call Rwanda has also delegated agents in various regions of the country to facilitate easy access to its services.

For more details about services offered by Call Rwanda, contact 0788302371/ 0789533616 or send email to crispin@call-rwanda.com and Patrick@call-rwanda.com