World Vision International Rwanda is delighted to present to you our 2022 Annual Report. This report highlights a summary of our achievements and impact from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. In 2022, we achieved great results through collective effort, which transformed the lives of children through improved livelihoods, WASH, Child Protection and Education, among many others. We could not have achieved these milestones and many more without your generous support and partnership. Together, we believe we will achieve so much more, for the benefit of the vulnerable children, their families and communities.

In many villages, land restoration and environmental preservation practices are commonly reserved for men. However, this has not stopped 38-year-old Beatrice, a mother of three children, from championing green practices and supporting farmers to adopt them for the past four years.

As we mark this year's International Mother Earth Day on 22 April, Beatrice urges women to get involved in land restoration practices because their efforts are needed and they are equally capable.

Thanks to their community's awareness of the Citizen Voice and Action (CVA) approach, Gilbert and Merab* have been saved from child labour and supported to return to school. CVA is a local-level advocacy and social accountability approach that facilitates dialogue between communities and government to improve services (like health care and education) that impact the daily lives of children and their families

*not their real names

Access to water has a huge impact on children’s well-being –particularly on their education. This is because in many families in rural areas, children wake up early in the morning to collect water before they go to school so that their parents have water to use throughout the day.

The reason 11-year-old Clarisse can afford to attend class on time today, is that clean water that is 300 metres from her house. Initially, she used to take a two hour round trip to the water source.

Thanks to World Vision, every 60 seconds a family receives the tools to overcome poverty. Delphine's family is proof.

The 16-year-old has been empowered to become an entrepreneur as a result of her mother’s participation in a pineapple growing cooperative supported and nurtured by World Vision.

Behind every aspect of World Vision's work throughout the last 70 years, Hidden Heroes –ordinary people making extraordinary impact– have risen up in every season. Among them is Rose; a young adult formerly registered under World Vision's child sponsorship programme who is now a youth volunteer on the front line of COVID-19 prevention in Rwanda.

Click below to read her inspiring story!