Water supply and purification for 5 municipalities in the Kibuye province, benefiting 180,000 people;

Rehabilitation and construction of 22 water conveyance networks;

Fitting out of 190 springs;

Training for local committees to manage the water supply systems and access to drinking water;

Construction of 100 latrines in 14 primary schools benefiting over 3,000 children (1997).

Feeding
Rehabilitation of 6 nutritional centres in the Kibuye region benefiting 3,000 children in 1995, 1,500 in 1996 as well as 300 breast-feeding mothers. Once the buildings had been renovated, SOLIDARITES brought in teams of Rwandans and provided the logistics for the running and supplies of these centres;
Creation of food shops (sale of food and hygiene products at prices below local market prices);
Supply of poultry, rabbits and vegetable seeds to encourage healthy, diverse and self-sufficient local production.

Transporting
Gikongoro Region, 200 000 beneficiaries
8 trucks carried and distributed thousands of tons of products (seeds, food), shared between 11 camps;
Kibeho (April 95) : evacuation of 200 wounded people and 300 unaccompanied children.

Assisting Refugees
november-december 1996
Transport of 40 tons of rice and 300 tons of firewood to 7 refugee camps for 12,000 people returning from Zaïre.

Nutritional Education
Training of Nutrition Centre staff;
Informing mothers and pregnant women (benefiting 150 breast-feeding women)
Presence of a social worker with the mothers in the villages
Medical supervision of children (monitoring of weight, growth, infections) for 1,300 children aged 0 to 5 years

Emergency Relief
benefiting 70 000 people:
Continuous distributions throughout 11 camps for displaced persons of 8,000 tons of emergency goods such as food, plastic sheeting, jerricans by 11 landrovers.