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The Province of East Flanders provides EUR 30,000 in emergency assistance to its partner regions in Ecuador, Rwanda and the Philippines. The province of East Flanders wants to limit the consequences of the corona crisis for the most vulnerable. That is why it is giving an extra EUR 10,000 to each of its partner regions. …

Province East Flandres provides corona emergency assistance Read More »

Since 2015, the organization HUMURA, in partnership with the Flemish-Rwandan Association Umubano, has started training in agro-ecology and in agro-forestry for the benefit of the rural youth of Gisaya. OBJECTIVE The primary objective of this pedagogical farm is to provide poor or unskilled young people with theoretical and practical knowledge and to help them improve …

HUMURA installs an automatic irrigation system Read More »

Tax benefit for donations from EUR 40 was increased Following the COVID-19 crisis, the federal government announced on June 12, 2020, that the tax deduction will be increased to 60% of the amount donated, for donations made in the year 2020,. Who now donates a gift from 40 EUR in fact only pays 16 EUR. …

TAX BENEFIT FOR DONATIONS INCREASED Read More »

Our semi-annual newsletter June 2020 has just rolled off the virtual press. In this newsletter you will find a lot of news about the situation in Rwanda and more specifically about our projects. A selection from the content: The Corona situation in Rwanda and how Umubano provides aid together with the province of West Flanders, …

The semi-anual Umubano newsletter JUNE 2020 is now on-line Read More »

The annual report 2019 is available in Dutch only The very detailed annual report on the activities of VRV Umubano vzw has just been published and placed on our website. As usual, this report gives a complete overview of all supported projects during the past year. You will find the financial details, origin and use …

ANNUAL REPORT 2019 Read More »

Thanks to support from Umubano en city of Waregem the TVET St Josephine school has achieved remarkable growth. For the 2019 academic year, 252 students graduated. Among them 215 girls and 37 boys in the different departments: sewing, catering, hairdresser. The most important achievement, however, is the greater focus on tailor-made guided development. This benefited …

TVET St Josephineschool – achievements academic year 2019 Read More »

The province of West Flanders comes to the rescue On June 28, 2019 Umubano received permission from the province of West Flanders to have two blocks 2 and 3 of the Murama school group in Kisaro (Rwanda) renovated by CPPA KISARO. The first classes of this school were built in the 1980’s by the founder …

UMUBANO RENOVATES 9 CLASSES IN MURAMA-KISARO Read More »

A record performance Three months after “The Warmest Week” (December 2019), part of the proceeds has already been invested in the Mutete school group in Rwanda. Umubano already commissioned CPPA KISARO in January 2020 for the construction of a second underground rainwater tank of 30m³. The first rainwater reservoir of 30 m³ was built there …

UMUBANO BUILDS SECOND WATER RESERVOIR IN MUTETE Read More »

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The Flemish-Rwandan Association Umubano is being mentioned in the February 2020 edition of the newsletter of the Embassy of Belgium in Rwanda. This newsletter is published in English only. Its title is: “Newsletter of the Belgian Cooperation in and with Rwande”. A brief overview of the activities and various supported projects and partners in Rwanda …

Umubano in this month’s newsletter of the Embassy of Belgium in Rwanda Read More »

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