Rwanda - ACTEC

ACTEC inside the country

Rwanda is pursuing a dazzling economic and social development, with an average growth rate of 7.2% over the last 10 years. However, it is still among the countries with low human development and continues to face many challenges: among others, the literacy rate is 73% and only 17.8% of the working population has completed secondary education. Also, the country’s rural areas have consistently lagged behind Kigali.

Investment in TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) and TSS (Technical Secondary School) centres remains a key development lever favoured by the Rwandan government to overcome the critical shortage of skilled labour.

ACTEC works with its local partners to develop their vocational training centres through investment in their organisational capacity, in the technical and pedagogical skills of the teachers, and in the infrastructure and teaching materials required for effective learning of a trade in growing sectors.

We will focus on promoting entrepreneurship to improve the youth employability rate (26.5%), which is undermined by the lack of quality employment opportunities and threatened by the arrival of more than 200,000 young people on the labour market each year.

Our beneficiaries

The most vulnerable young people and adults (illiterate, refugees) in need of skills training; young people in school pursuing technical training at secondary or higher levels; the teaching and administrative staff of our partners.

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Our partners

Don Bosco Muhazi TVET School

https://aglpdo.org/muhazi/

Located on the outskirts of Kigali, the Don Bosco Muhazi rural centre has seen its mission evolve over the years: from a community centre in 2002 organising sports and cultural activities, it has offered literacy courses since 2008. For the past decade, the Don Bosco Muhazi school has also been offering young people a two-year vocational training in three trades (tailoring, culinary arts and masonry).

Maison Shalom International

www.maisonshalom.org

Founded in Burundi in 1993 to respond to the needs generated by the interethnic conflict that devastated Burundi and Rwanda, Maison Shalom has been based in Kigali since 2015. Active in the capital and in the City of Mahama, it pursues the social and professional integration of young refugees and the most vulnerable Rwandans through a holistic approach that includes learning a trade and promoting income generating activities.

St. Mary Dominique Mazzarello TSS School

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When it started in 2007, the school run by the Salesian Sisters took in young single mothers to teach them basic skills (health, hygiene and tailoring). Since then, its mission has expanded remarkably; it has become a technical secondary school providing three years of training in three trades to high school graduates. Its commitment to young mothers and adults with (almost) no education continues through the organisation of intensive vocational training (3 – 12 months).