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Project August 13, 2018

Helping the Poor: What Works in Rwanda?

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The Feed the Future Tworore Inkoko, Twunguke project hosts a meeting in the Gataraga sector of Rwanda to recruit farmers to grow chickens. If the farmers commit to four days of training and pass a competency test, they are given a backyard coop worth about $625, as well as the means to obtain 100 day-old chicks, vaccines, feed and technical advice. Image by Emily Urban for NPR. Rwanda, 2018.
The Feed the Future Tworore Inkoko, Twunguke project hosts a meeting in the Gataraga sector of Rwanda to recruit farmers to grow chickens. If the farmers commit to four days of training and pass a competency test, they are given a backyard coop worth about $625, as well as the means to obtain 100 day-old chicks, vaccines, feed and technical advice. Image by Emily Urban for NPR. Rwanda, 2018.

In the aftermath of a genocide that killed as many as 1 million people in 1994, Rwanda emerged as a "donor darling"—a country where the world's governments, along with nonprofits, churches, companies, and academics, have tried to help the poor. How much good do these government and philanthropic dollars do, and at what cost? How could aid be delivered more effectively? Marc Gunther explores these questions in a series of stories looking at projects designed to do good in Rwanda.

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