OUR STORIE
How Rwanda's Literature Circles for Girls began and evolved into Generation Rise (May 2017)
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Generation Rise Timeline
- 2016 | Literature Circles for Girls
- 2017 | Generation Rise founded
- 2017 | New Page Rwanda event
- 2018 | Her Voice Matters (HVM) | 1st cohort (Gahanga and Kabuga High Schools)
- 2019 | Her Voice Matters (HVM) | 2nd cohort (Gahanga and Kabuga High Schools)
- 2019 | Generation Rise is a participant in the Social Innovation Incubator (Segal Foundation)
Meet some of our HVM participants
Henriette Uwineza
Josiane Munganyinka
Gisele Umubyeyi
Regine Shirumuteto
"Generation Rise has helped me to increase my confidence. I never used to speak openly in public, but I am now presenting my views confidently in class."
"Generation Rise has also helped me in setting my goals for the future and I am confident enough that I will achieve them."
-Regine S.
"I can now let out my ideas with no fear or shyness."
- Henriette U.
"What amazes me is the way we learn in Her Voice Matters. It is very different from how we learn in normal classes here at school."
- Germaine I.