Life School
Nyamata, Bugesera District
500 children, from age three, in Nyamata. Fed twice a day, taught the full national curriculum, and on Saturdays, taught to dance and to run.
500+children, 2025/26
IRIBA Foundation works where Rwanda is most vulnerable.With children in Nyamata. With women on the Rubavu border. With farmers on Lake Cyohoha.
IRIBA Foundation · formerly ICP Rwanda · Reg. No. 013/RGB/NGO/2016 · Rwanda
Three programmes
Women on the border
Rubavu District
Cross-border trader women in Rubavu, trained in their rights, their finances, and how to stay safe.
TKTK: women trainedTKTK: period
Farmers on Lake Cyohoha
Bugesera District
Photograph to come
Farmers around Lake Cyohoha, provided with storage for what they grow, so a harvest does not have to be sold the day it is brought in.
TKTK: farmers reachedTKTK: period
Where we work
- Nyamata · Bugesera District
- Life School
- Rubavu District · Lake Kivu
- Women's Programme
- Lake Cyohoha · Bugesera District
- Farmers
Two districts, three programmes. All on water: Bugesera's lakes and wetlands, Lake Cyohoha on the Burundi border, and the shore of Lake Kivu under the Virunga volcanoes.
The count
| Figure | What it is |
|---|---|
| 2016 | registered as a civil society organisationNo. 013/RGB/NGO/2016 · Rwanda Governance Board |
| 500+ | children at Life School, from age three2025/26 · Life School prospectus, Sept 2026 |
| 846+ | direct community beneficiaries, per the organisational profile2026 · Organisational profile, Sept 2026 |
| 145M | Rwandan francs, one year's programme portfolioRWF, one year · Organisational profile, Sept 2026 |
| 4 | named institutional partnersnamed · Organisational profile, Sept 2026 |
Every figure names its period and its source. Where the foundation has not yet verified a number, the number is not here.
If you represent an institution
A ministry, a federation, an embassy, a fund: the five-year plan and the formal ask are on the Partner page, with the logframe and the registration.
If you are one person
The Give page shows what a day at Life School costs, and takes a card.
Records
What exists, and when.
- 2016
- Registration as a civil society organisation, Rwanda Governance Board, No. 013/RGB/NGO/2016
- 2026-09
- Organisational profile, IRIBA Foundation
- 2026-09
- Life School profile and strategic plan
Documents without a link are available on request from partnerships@iribafoundation.org.
The founder
I am Eddy Kalisa Nyarwaya, and I founded this organisation.
My younger brothers and I were taken to an orphanage in Uganda. An American family paid for my education, and that changed what I wanted to do with my life.
Since then I have worked on healing among genocide survivors and perpetrators in Rwanda's prisons, and now with children in Nyamata and women in Rubavu.
Photographs
