NASILELE SINYAMBO initiated the Monze Cluster in Zambia. Earlier this year, he travelled 500 kilometres to Kaoma in Western Province and began a conversation about the Arukah Network approach to community development. By May, that conversation had grown into the Western Cluster. In this blog, Nasilele shares how the Cluster started and what it hopes to achieve. You live quite far from Western Province but helped start the Cluster there. Tell us about that journey. You’re right. Although I...

The Rwanda Cluster has been running a Small Poultry Support Project to support Teen Mothers and Vulnerable Children. In this blog, Cluster mobiliser MANASSE NTWARI tells us more about the project, the impact it has had and hopeful plans for the future. Tell us about the Small Poultry Support Project and how it came about. At its core, this is a project that puts chickens and eggs into the hands of teen mothers and vulnerable children from poor families across Rwanda. The goal is twofold:...

From leadership workshops and craft training to food support and farm harvests, the Arukah Goma Cluster has had a busy start to the year. JACKSON from the Cluster shares what they’ve been doing, why it matters and what they have planned for the future…