Celebrating 10 Years of Educating, Engaging and Empowering
It all started with the belief in the right to equal opportunity and a dignified life. Formerly known as Protection and Care of Families Against HIV/AIDS(PACFA), this vision began by providing the most basic rights to HIV positive men, women and children across Rwanda. Through the provision of health care and economic opportunity, PACFA's work gave renewed hope to thousands of Rwandans.
Five years and three additional program areas later, PACFA became Imbuto Foundation. With its name symbolically translating as seed and programs based on Engaging, Empowering and Educating, Imbuto Foundation is nurturing an entire generation of change makers. In the words of Imbuto Foundation's Founder, First Lady Jeannette Kagame: A seed well planted, watered, nurtured and given all the necessary support successfully grows into a healthy plant - one that reaches high and stands tall."
On August 8th and 9th, Imbuto Foundation celebrates the hundreds of young girls now receiving an education through its scholarship program, the thousands of families who have received health care and become economically independent through its income generating activities program and the generation of young Rwandans who have been empowered to take part in building a dignified nation. In true Imbuto fashion, the celebrations will be marked by a youth forum themed "Ndi Umunyarwanda- I am Rwandan" where youth ranging from 18 to 35 years old will learn more about their common identity and the responsibility of all to shape the kind of future rooted in values of dignity and self determination.
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