Andrea is now back from Rwanda and she has the following to tell you about her trip:

The evaluation trip was a great success, it was incredibly exciting for us to mark the end of the first year of this project and to start seeing the results, and results they were! All of the tier one producer organisations (the top tier many of whom are exporting their goods) are developing business plans and have made great strides in updating and developing their financial systems. Arthur from Cards of Africa stated that they have now introduced a stock control system which is helping their business enormously and they have made updates they have made to their financial systems, which is helping things rum much more smoothly. The group are also evaluating how they run their operations and working with our environmental partner REDO in order to assess what environmental improvements they could make.

You can find her latest blog posts about the Foundation training programme here. Do also take a few moments to browse through her photo’s from the trip by clicking here.

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