Hello Kongossa Community,
I’m proud to open this new section dedicated to Opportunities in Africa. Our Goal at Kongossa, is to help you care about Africa and to use all the potential of our continent for greats achievements. To help us assess the real power of Africa’s economy on these shaking financial times, i have the honour to present Steve Amara our dedicated Consultant! In the next few days, you will learn more about steve! Stay tuned and enjoy the following 
Rwanda growing Economy
First of all, we should notice that due to his history (we all have in mind the genocide that happened there 17 years ago), Rwanda faced huge challenges for its reconstruction. The greatest of all was learning to Rwandan people how to live together, whether they were Tutsi or Hutu. This is probably one of the creates achievement of the current President KAGAME, who focused on Forgiveness and putting all strength together in order to reach a sustainable level of development and bring his country into the 21st century with a winning mind.
Today, Rwanda is the fastest growing economy of East Africa (http://www.busiweek.com/11/the-eac-issues/eac-news/1877-eac-economies-among-fastest-growing-in-africa) and one go the most flourishing in Sub-Saharan Africa. The major reason is the hard president’s will to enhance entrepreneurship spirit of Rwandese in every sector of the economy. This is clearly visible in IT sector, where the country is now a pioneer in Africa. But a main point is still to rise, in the particular field of Agriculture.
According to CIA factbook, Rwanda is essentially a rural country where about 90% of the population live of agriculture (mainly subsistence). So the major part of the country’s workforce is made of farmers. that poses a question : how do we bring this population to a winning agriculture so that their weight in the economy becomes bigger? In addition, how do we ensure this agriculture is in the best condition possible not to put farmers and consumer in serious hazard?
MicroEnsure’s Agricultural Division has been informed today the IFC will confer a grant of $1.6 million, over the next three years to provide microinsurance for 15,000 farmers in Rwanda (details here)
MicroEnsure is one of the organism most involved in developing effective healthcare systems throughout the developing world. They quickly understood how connecting healthcare and agriculture in rural areas could have a strong impact on poor countries development. The link above shows how the interested the World Bank in that major issue then. What stronger evidence could we find to demonstrate the opportunities this sector offers us?
I personally intend to travel there around June 2012, to seize this opportunity and understand how to invest there concretely.
The aim of my speech would be to present you my vision, my plan, and tell young african not why (because the answer is evident) but how they can act now to capture business opportunities in Rwanda social agriculture to take our continent to the next level.
My pleasure to speak with you.
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