Welcome to Nyamirambo Women Center!
Nyamirambo Women’s Center (NWC), a Rwandan NGO, was launched at the end of 2007 by 18 Rwandese women living in Nyamirambo, Kigali. Together they created a project which aimed to address gender-based violence, gender inequality and discrimination. Today, NWC’s mission is to provide education and vocational training to women who do not have the means to pay for such training on their own, so that they can gain better opportunities for employment.
At the end of 2013, NWC launched the product line ‘Umutima’, which means ‘heart’ in Kinyarwanda. With this project, NWC trains and employs women from the community to create a wide range of high quality women’s accessories, children’s clothing, and home decor products. They combine their creative style with beautiful soft silk kitenge fabrics to create products that can’t be found at other tailors or markets around Kigali. At the moment there are over 50 women employed by Umutima as seamstresses. Umutima and NWC have grown into a unique, self-sustaining model where the profits earned through Umutima are used to fund NWC initiatives, in addition to providing benefits and a fair wage to the seamstresses.
Our product range includes:
- Kids clothes
- Laundry baskets
- Banana leaf bag, cups and rugs
- Bags
- Palm leaf box baskets
- Pochettes
- Necklaces
- Sisal cups
- Animal plush
- Embroidered pouches
- Décor.
Our products are:
- Made in Rwanda
- Handmade.
We hope you enjoy browsing our products!