Against All Odds | Launching Isomo Academy
Despite incredible challenges and setbacks, Bridge2Rwanda’s Isomo Academy officially launched on Sunday, August 1, with the first cohort of 120 Isomo Scholars and 32 B2R staff receiving special clearance from the government to travel to Maranyundo Girls School and begin the 8-week residential boot camp. This marks the beginning of a transformative learning experience grounded in: ENGLISH TRAINING – Developing students’ foundational English-language skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking […]
B2R Fellows Discuss Work and Life After Returning Home
B2R Fellows, Steven Mucyo (Georgetown University), Christelle Umubyeyi(Yale University) and Diana Munyana(Columbia University) sat down with Managing Director of The BRIDGE Career Services, Happiness Uwase, to discuss their transition from university to career, their experience working at Dalberg, a strategy and policy advisory firm specializing in global development, and what led them to return home to launch their careers in Rwanda. “There […]
35 B2R Scholars Graduate From University Abroad This Year
Congratulations to the 35 B2R Scholars who graduated from universities abroad this year! We wish them the best as they enter a new season and begin their professional journey. There is no limit to what they will accomplish over the course of their careers.
B2R Celebrates 10 Years of Impact
287 STUDENTS SELECTED$ 72 MILLION SCHOLARSHIPS EARNED FROM85 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIESThank you to our incredible network of Scholars, donors, partners, host families, sponsors, and friends who have joined us on the bridge over the last 10 years. We look forward to what the next decade holds!
B2R Commissions 10th Cohort of B2R Scholars
This month, B2R commissioned its tenth cohort of 24 Bridge2Rwanda Scholars who earned university scholarships to study abroad this fall. The event included speeches from Group 10 Scholars, Brave Jeremie Mugisha and Jeielle Habinam Claudia; B2R Founder and CEO, Dale Dawson; and Group 5 Scholar and keynote speaker Christelle Umubyeyi. Watch the full event here.
Isomo Academy Bootcamp Will Be Held at Maranyundo Girls School
We are so excited to officially announce that our first Isomo Academy summer boot camp will be held at Maranyundo Girls School, which is located in Nyamata, right outside Kigali. The school includes beautiful classrooms with smart technology and a large computer lab, as well as spacious dormitories where students will stay during the 8-week residential program. We look forward […]
B2R Scholar Speaks at TEDx Middlebury About the Role of Schools
Before graduating from Middlebury College with a double major in Neuroscience and Psychology and minor in Education Studies this month, B2R Scholar, Francoise Niyigena, had the opportunity to speak at a TEDx Middlebury event. In her talk “Why re-thinking the role of schools is key to ending global poverty,” Francoise named different ways that the school system fails to serve and truly empower […]
B2R Fellow Selected to Join First Cohort of JASIRI Talent Investor
JASIRI is supported by Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropy and seeks to attack poverty by investing in, nurturing, and empowering responsible entrepreneurs and leaders who benefit society by accelerating meaningful employment and ethical leadership. Learn more about the JASIRI Talent Investor. We are excited to announce that B2R Fellow, Olivier Munyeshyaka has been selected to join the first cohort of JASIRI […]
B2R Scholar Earns International Recognition for Sustainability Project
Congratulations to B2R Scholar, Diane Kabanyana, a senior business administration and economics major at Birmingham Southern College, for her work on Plant Space, an agricultural sustainability project which received international praise and advanced to the semi-finals of the Wege Prize 2021. Kabanyana and four other undergraduate students worked together to design Plant Space, a solar-powered hydroponic system that increases the supply of fresh, high-quality produce […]
All 24 Group 10 B2R Scholars Receive International Scholarships to Study Abroad
We are so excited to announce that all 24 Group 10 B2R Scholars have received international scholarships to some of the top universities in the world! Despite an incredibly challenging year of distance learning, Group 10 Scholars have excelled academically and maintained high ACT and TOEFL scores this year. We are excited to see what the New Year holds for the remaining […]
B2R Farms’ Selects Second Cohort of Interns to Start Program This Week
B2R Farms is excited to announce the launch of its second cohort of University of Rwanda agriculture interns. The selected 15 UR graduates come from 11 different districts in Rwanda, covering all four provinces of Rwanda and the City of Kigali. The graduates’ home towns also cover 6 distinct agro-ecological zones. For the next three months, the UR Interns will get […]
B2R Scholar Launches NGO in Home Country of DRC in Response to COVID-19
In May 2020, B2R Scholar, Bienfait Mugenza foundedCongo Dynamique Initiative (CODI), a non-profit and non-governmental organization committed to empowering youth and women in his home country of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The goal of CODI is to generate a steady flow of accountable leaders, ethical entrepreneurs, and new businesses to increase jobs and wealth and eradicate poverty in the […]