Spark MicroGrants

Spark MicroGrants mission is to catalyze rural poor communities into action.  Using local university graduates, Spark reaches out to rural poor villages and assists them in the design, implementation, and management of their own social impact projects such as schools, water wells, and farming cooperatives.  During 2012-2013, our first Project Grant was used to purchase 184 goats for the 184 families in the village of Gahunga in Rwanda, with the funds generated from breeding goats used to build a second water-tap for the community.  Our second grant of $9,270 in 2014-2015 was used to build a community crops storehouse for the village of Nyamusanze with 156 households in northern Rwanda. (www.sparkmicrogrants.org)