RUYIGI CENTER

The center started on February 10, 2022 with a team of 25 people including 20 seamstresses (3 living with a physical disability), staff composed of the center coordinator, an assistant, another in charge of production and two watchmen.

The RUYIGI Community Center is in the capital of RUYIGI Province, RUYIGI Commune and Area in the SANZU III neighborhood just on the road that leads to Our Lady of Joy High School, 300m from the provincial office.

But today we have a team of 28 people including the coordinator of the center, three assistants, another production manager, three watchmen and 20 seamstresses.

Meet The Team

Get to know the passionate and dedicated individuals who make SaCoDé Burundi's mission possible. Meet our team members, who work tirelessly to empower communities and bring about positive change in Burundi.

Sr. Cecile NIYONZIMA

Ruyigi Center Coordinator

NIYONKURU Nestor

Volunteer Mentor at the Ruyigi Center

SIBOMANA Melance

Mentor at the Ruyigi Center

RWIMO Elie

Volunteer Mentor at the Ruyigi Center

KARERWA Gilbert

Mentor at the Ruyigi Center

BUKOKO Claire

Production Assistant at the Ruyigi Center

Mrs. Grace Francoise NIBIZI

Founder & Executive Director

BAKUNDANE Ange Bernice

Seamstress at the Ruyigi Center

NIYONKURU Chadrack

Volunteer Mentor at the Ruyigi Center

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RUYIGI CENTER

Meet The Team

Sr. Cecile NIYONZIMA

NIYONKURU Nestor

SIBOMANA Melance

RWIMO Elie

KARERWA Gilbert

BUKOKO Claire

Mrs. Grace Francoise NIBIZI

BAKUNDANE Ange Bernice

NIYONKURU Chadrack

Our Partners

African Visionary Fund

The African Visionary Fund is unleashing breakthrough impact by driving resources to high-impact African founders. We are tackling inequities and righting ...

Segal Family Foundation

We are building an equitable community of visionary organizations—both doers and donors—across Sub-Saharan Africa so that together we can improve the lives of ...

Grand Chalenge Canada

Grand Challenges Canada is a Canadian nonprofit organization that uses a Grand Challenges model to fund solutions to critical health and development challenges in the developing world. The organization has supported over 1,000 projects in more than 80 countries, impacting 1.3 million people.

Ducke Unicef

embassy of the kingdom of the netherlands

Netherlands embassy in Bujumbura, Burundi. Address. Immeuble Old East Place de l'Indépendance Bujumbura Burundi. Front desk.

Care International

Gould Family Foundation

Providing qualified, community-led HEALTH NGOs with quality medical equipment, biomedical support, clinical training and Community focused health grants (Gap ...

giz Internation

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, often simply shortened to GIZ, is the main German development agency. It is headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn and provides services in the field of international development cooperation and international education work.

higher life

Imago dei fund

KCB

KCB Bank offers Project financing in Kenya. Our financing solutions provide project financing for infrastructure and industrial projects based on projected ...

Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational corporation founded in 1886 that develops medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and consumer packaged goods.

gouvernement du Burundi

Le Programme National intégré de lutte contre les Maladies Tropicales Négligées et la Cécité du Ministère de la Santé Publique et de lutte contre le Sida va se doter bientôt d’un nouveau Plan Directeur National pour la période 2022-2027.

UNHCR

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.

next einstein

Lumicash Burundi

Fondation Roi Baudouin

We enable U.S. donors to support their favorite causes and organizations overseas, and provide foreign nonprofit organizations with cost-effective solutions to raise funds in the United States.

PANGEA

We are a giving circle that gives our members and supporters direct, thoughtful, and effective ways to help grassroots organizations in the Global South to improve the quality of life in their communities.

preston werner ventures

Working on social justice, climate change, and technology.

UNFPA

USA EMBASSY

Welthungerhilfe

Welthungerhilfe is one of the largest private aid agencies in Germany; politically and religiously independent. The organisation fights for “Zero Hunger by 2030”. Since being founded in 1962, it has provided funding of EUR 4.46 billion for more than 10,895 overseas projects in 70 countries.

zoa

ZOA is an international relief and recovery organisation. We provide relief to people affected by violent conflicts and natural disasters in fragile contexts. But we also assist them during their recovery from the crisis.

Ecocash

EcoCash is an innovative mobile payment solution that enables customers to complete financial transactions directly from their mobile phone! Customers can send money to loved ones, buy airtime, pay for goods and services and much more.

oky

Oky is the world's first period tracker app for girls and created with girls. It provides information about menstruation in fun, creative and positive ways, straight into girls' hands through the tools they use every day – mobile phones.

Sharenet

One world Child Fund

Unicef