Community Tours in Rwanda - This Is Africa
The ‘This is Africa’ experience brings visitors right into the heart of the colors, noises and smells of urban Rwanda and introduces life in a bustling multi-cultural commercial suburb with a typical African flair. Young and charming single women of Nyamirambo take the visitors’ hands to guide them to the hair saloon, the West African tailor, the Muslim quarter, the local market and one of their private homes where they will have a cooking lesson and lunch over intriguing conversations.
- Main partners: Nyamirambo Women's Center, Mirovni Peace Institute (Slovenia), European Commission, Rwanda Association of University Women, City of Kigali
- Number of direct beneficiaries: ca. 25 Center members
- Number of indirect beneficiaries: ca. 50
- Community percentage of profit sharing: at least 70%
- Material community benefits: 3 rotating part-time jobs, various income-generating opportunities, community development fund, sale of local products
- 2-6 persons (half-day): $80/person
- 7-12 persons (half-day): $60/person
- 2-6 persons (full-day): $100/person
- 7-12 persons (full-day): $80/person
- Special reductions for NGOs and universities
- Variations: teaching and volunteering opportunities at the Center, combination with a historical Kigali City Tour, combination with other excursions or full tour programs
