Supporting the wider community…

Our most ambitious project yet— a clinic at the Gitabage school— has steadily expanded into a community health center. Since the general clinic opened in 2022, a maternity building, laboratory building, kitchen/nutrition building, inpatient rooms, bathrooms, nurses’ quarters, water tanks, retaining walls, paved parking, and offices have been added. All Rwandan Health Ministry requirements were finally satisfied in August 2026, and the complex will open in January 2027.

Individuals with the determination and skill to start their own small businesses can apply for grants from REE. We have given seed money for start-ups including beet farming, shoemaking, hairdressing, music lessons, food delivery, mobile barbering, and more. We also enable motivated individuals to pursue vocational training, to help them find employment which will support their family’s health and their children’s education.

Over the years students and school staff have received donated rabbits, pigs, goats, and even cows to eat and breed at home—one way to generate money for school fees and other family needs.