Nyamirama TVET School

Equip’s first project as an INGO was working in cooperation with the District of Bugesera to take on a second school, which opened as Nyamirama TVET School in January 2019. We recognize the need there is to provide high quality TVET schools and our partnership for this school is with Église Presbyteriénne au Rwanda at Nyamirama TVET School in the Shyara sector of the district.

Equip funds all the staff and teachers of the school as well as providing the learning resources, administration and maintenance costs. Refurbishment works have been carried out to improve the learning environment. This has included: upgraded classrooms and toilets, construction of a hangari (outside undercover workshop), installation of a water tank and the provision of a girls’ room.

Equip also monitors the quality of the schools giving educational consultancy and leadership and management support as required.

In 2018 Equip was offered the use of a second vocational school. The school was little more than a group of four small, unfinished classrooms, on the site of an EPR church in the District of Bugesera. Equip’s immediate task was to bring the rooms up to an acceptable standard and to install the appropriate equipment to be able, initially, to deliver four classes of Construction, Welding, Hair & Beauty and Tailoring. Despite demand for these school places being high, lack of church funds to provide materials and to pay staff meant that previously, the school had only been able to operate occasionally, often for just a term, before having to close. Equip’s commitment to the project has secured its longer-term future and introduced additional classes. Nyamirama VTC opened in January 2019.

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