Kigali–The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched Twiyubake Project on Monday, June 29th to uplift 50,000 poor families out of poverty.
The USAID’s new Rwf 26.6 billion (USD $37 million) project is set to improve the protection of vulnerable groups and connect them to the health, social, and educational services that can enable them to improve their lives.
Implemented by Global Communities, the 5-year project will work in partnership with the Government of Rwanda to provide integrated services for 50,000 vulnerable households (approximately 250,000 individuals), including people living with HIV, orphans and vulnerable children, and very poor families, many of them female or widow-headed households.
Speaking at the launch of the new project, the US Ambassador to Rwanda, Erica Barks-Ruggles, said the project seeks to build community resilience with a particular aim of protecting vulnerable communities from poverty, diseases and disasters.
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