social enterprise partners - Rwanda
Indego Africa
About Indego Africa
Indego Africa is a not-for-profit based in Kigali, Rwanda that is propelling the creation, growth, and sustainability of women-owned businesses in Ghana and Rwanda by providing artisans with a global market for their handmade products and investing in their education.
Indego Africa’s product ranges include a wide array of woven home decor and accessories. The raw materials used in these items are natural fibers, indigenous to the region, like sweetgrass, palm leaf, bolga straw, banana leaf, and organic yarn that’s handspun and hand-dyed using local plant, flower, and vegetable material. Materials are sourced from local markets and farms.
Indego Africa invests 100% of proceeds into education programs for the artisans they work with.
Refugee Artisan Group
Currently 237 Congolese and Burundian refugee women in Rwanda collaborate with Indego Africa. The women live in Kigeme and Mahama refugee camps. In each camp, groups of artisans function as cooperatives with their own internal management structures.
© UNHCR/Jacques Nkinzingabo
Partners
since:
2018
Artisan
origin:
Burundian & Congolese
Production Locations:
Mahama and Kigeme Refugee Camps, Rwanda
Features
Photo Feature
Heritage skills
Basket weaving
Features
"Working improved our lives. We can now meet the needs of our children - we can afford their school shoes and materials. Before coming together we were lonely women, and we lacked self-esteem. We now all share our opinions confidently, and together find solutions to our problems."
Claudine, refugee artisan in Rwanda
