Youthconnekt Dialog

14 Sep

Fighting unintended pregnancies among young Rwandan women

Search As You Engage (SAYE) is a social enterprise company with the mission to equip young women with reproductive health information, menstrual hygiene management and economic empowerment through selling products produced by young women.

Success Stories

11 Sep

Regis aim at changing the cultural value and mindset towards sweet potatoes

CARL Group is a youth-led company that aims at providing nutritious products through local marginalized crops such as sweet potatoes.

Success Stories

10 Sep

Former street child makes a fortune from horns

For many, cow horns are only fit for the garbage but according to Jean Marie Vianney Habiyaremye, it has been a life changing business opportunity that supported him to come out from the street.

Success Stories

10 Sep

Uwimana Jean d’Amour, Managing Director of New Art Style that make shoes

At the YouthConnekt bootcamp, I learned about customer satisfaction strategies that encouraged me to compare myself with others in the same industry and made valued changes that increased my production.

Success Stories

21 Nov

Mukandayisenga uses sugarcane to make her success story

Mukandayisenga Clementine says that her life is changing drastically due to wine and juice she made from sugarcane. She said this during Youth caravan 2018; which took place in Kigali from 27th to 29th November 2018.

Success Stories

Background

In 2012, The Government of Rwanda partnered with UNDP to initiate the YouthConnektprogramme that is a multifaceted youth empowerment model focused on leveraging youth employability, entrepreneurship and civic engagement through innovation with a specific mission to serve as portal of connecting youth with their peers, role models, skills and resources for their socio-economic empowerment.