What have you been doing in the last two and half years? During COVID we were not actively involved in our usual activities, but during the partial lift lockdown we started to again get active. What business do you have now? We are in different businesses. We weave...
Meet Isobel…I travelled to a remote rural village in Rwanda where ten women’s Self Help Groups started eight months ago. I wasn’t expecting too much. I mean, what can happen in that time? But you haven’t met this group of women. They come with examples of businesses...
Like much of the developing world, Covid and the subsequent lockdowns had a great impact on life in Rwanda. Markets closed, people were housebound, medical and other Government services were either closed or overloaded. Life became very difficult and even moreso for...
Odette is a member of Urumuru Self Help Group which started in 2019. On the brink of the pandemic. She is married and has five children with ages 22, 20, 18, 15 and 14. Here is her story, “After joining the SHG, we were sensitized/trained on different topics,...
Kambanda Josephine is a forty-five-year-old married woman, who has six children. She is one of the Self Help Group (SHG) members who have been facilitated by Foxglove through AEE Rwanda to get out of poverty. She has stopped depending on her husband to supply...
In a month looking back at Foxglove’s roots, there are stories that jump out at you. I don’t think each person’s ‘call’ is something to be compared or measured. We’ve all got unique contributions. Yet travelling to India in 2017, I met a woman who is giving her call...
