Monthly Archives - November 2017

30 Nov

RVCP Celebrates the menstrual hygiene day at rukira secondary school

Theme: Menstruation is a normal biological process and a sign of good health. Pyramid program has cerebrated the menstrual hygiene day with students girls and boys from Group Scholaire de Rukira the 28/05/2015 with “Menstruation is a normal biological process and a sign of good health” as the theme of the day which inspired the organizers to invite both girls and boys from the school to cerebrate together the Menstrual hygiene day. Students(girls and boys) have exposed different problems girls [...]

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30 Nov

Oral Health awareness and education initiative begins

The Rwanda Village Concept Project in collaboration with students from Maryland University initiated the Oral Health Awareness initiative aiming at educating primary school children the importance of having and maintaining oral hygiene. Following a needs assessment that was carried out at Rukara Primary school, teaching sessions were conducted, once the students completed the teaching sessions, they were also given tooth brushes and tooth pastes as lack of these tools was one of the major problems identified in this school. More [...]

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07 Nov

RVCP celebrates World AIDS Day with Nyakagezi village residents

RWANDA Village Concept Project, RVCP, joined Nyakagezi village residents to celebrate World AIDS Day 2015, a day that is celebrating globally on 1st of December every year. Due to tight schedules of RVCP members/volunteers and availability of inhabitants, celebration activities took place on Saturday, November 28th from 7:30am to 8pm in Nyakagezi village, Huye sector, South Province.Member of Parliament honorable Gloriose was the guest of honor. The theme of the one-day event was “Getting to Zero”, a great opportunity to raising awareness of the deadly HIV/AIDS in the community [...]

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07 Nov

Malaria on the rise again, RVCP cautions Mbazi residents

Through its malaria prevention program, Rwanda Village Concept Project, RVCP, warned Mbazi sector residents to be precautious about malaria which is on rise again. The youth-led organization called on citizens to make the fight against malaria outbreak their own after the monthly community service, Umuganda, held on Saturday, April 30 in Mbazi sector, Huye district of the Southern Province of Rwanda.The one-hour long interactive conversation between RVCP and hundreds of the local population who participated in Umuganda, focused on how [...]

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07 Nov

RVCP leads Huye through World AIDS Day 2016

Rwanda Village Concept Project (RVCP) through its HIV/AIDS prevention, sexual reproductive health, and family planning Program and partners, spearheaded the ceremony of World AIDS Day 2016 in Huye district on December 1 at Kamena stadium, Ngoma sector.​ The eventful ceremony that attracted close to 350 people, was preceded by HIV fight and prevention week, a week of outreach activities, public lectures and awareness campaigns in schools, markets, youth clubs and centers, all done by RVCP volunteers in different parts of the Southern Province’s [...]

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07 Nov

Rwanda Village Concept Project provided goats to vulnerable younger mothers

 In the dusk of 21st December 2016, at the office of Ngoma sector-HUYE district, there has been an inspiring event of providing 11 goats to 11 young mothers from three anti HIV/AIDS clubs which are Kaburemera, Matyazo and Nyakagezi clubs in other to improve their standard of living . This project has been done by Rwanda Village Concept Project (RVCP)  through its HIV/AIDS prevention program and sponsored the family two German medical students Martin Knippenberg and Jan Niklas Petry-Schmelzer. The guests of [...]

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