Community of Practice

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 In order to stimulate early thinking, early literacy and numeracy, social-emotional skills and curiosity at early age while supporting children’s holistic growth we established the Ineza academy as a quality nursery school, which can serve as a model for early childhood education throughout Musha and beyond. 


REAP’s ECD (Early Childhood Development) director visited one of the public nurseries in efforts to support their teachers by giving them model lessons, school supplies and a read aloud session

The Duha School primary girls basketball team

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The Duha School primary girls basketball team (made up of girls ages 13 -14) recently won the district-wide school basketball championship. Winning a championship often provides children the opportunity to go to schools of excellence with sports scholarships. REAP funded and built the basketball court that helped make the team successful. This is just one of the ways the REAP is making impact and providing opportunities to children.

REAP Scholarship

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Peninnah is one of the many success stories of REAP scholarship recipients. She received a scholarship while working on farms in her community to help support her family’s household needs. She has since graduated from veterinary school and owns her own agro-veterinary pharmacy. She’was also able to support her family by building a house for her mother.

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Build a culture of literacy and Peace

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Members of our staff have been trained by TLC (Transformation Leadership Center) an NGO dedicated to empowering communities to promote education and peace by developing centers for literacy and learning for the children of Rwanda. REAP is working to build a culture of literacy and peace in Musha through our Early Childhood Development program and by reading aloud in our communities with our mobile library program.

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Musha Alumni Association Launch

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Musha Alumni Association was open to the public for the first time. Among the guests were: World Connect representative and youth leaders at the district and the Sector level,and the community. The Musha Alumni Association presented their activities including a short film, a talent show and computer skills workshop.

Positive parenting workshop

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Today we conducted a workshop on positive parenting and child protection with 48 parents of our new students at Ineza Academy. Our goal is to enhance positive parenting and child protection which are important components of our Early Childhood development program.



Rwamagana District visits and commends INEZA Academy

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The Rwamagana District, through its health office, is inspecting early childhood centers with specific emphasis on health practices. For Musha Sector, REAP’s Ineza Academy was selected as a model program and the district team visited the center on January 9, 2023.

They appreciated and commended our integrated early childhood program that includes two hand-washing sinks, a proper kitchen, children's boiled drinking water, clean bathrooms and vegetable gardens. They further recommended that the Sector’s agronomist should replicate the vegetable gardens to all Cells (government level under the Sector) in the Sector.

REAP executive director visit

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Every year the REAP founder and executive director Ed Ballen comes to visit our centers in Rwanda.  Due to an almost 3 year absence from Covid, He returned to Rwanda for a visit.  He had the opportunity to see many of REAP’s programs, and witnessed the impact of the mobile library project, the production of student uniforms at our newly renovated community center Ihuriro, the Early Childhood Program, the nutrition feeding program, our public health program initiative, and our new science based reading program. The community expressed its deep gratitude to REAP with a sendoff celebration for Ed, occupied by poems, songs, and dances




REAP participates in a public event to prevent violence against women

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Every year from November 25 to December 10, communities around the world conduct various activities geared towards elimination of violence against women. 

For Rwamagana District, the inaugural event took place at Musha Sector on November 25, 2022 where two REAP’s student clubs were selected to entertain the audience and perform educational songs and skits about violence against women. One of the students in the clubs gave her own testimony where, at the age of 15, she was raped, impregnated and caught HIV. She urged youth to listen to their parents and say no to sugar daddies.