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 in Bugesera and Rubavu. With farmers on Lake Cyohoha.
IRIBA Foundation · formerly ICP Rwanda · Reg. No. 013/RGB/NGO/2016 · Rwanda
Three programmes
Women Economic Empowerment
Nyamata, Bugesera District · Rubavu District
Women in Bugesera and in Rubavu, trained in their rights, their finances, and how to stay safe. In Rubavu, many of them trade across the border.
760women trained in seven years
Farmers on Lake Cyohoha
Bugesera District
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.
400farmers reached
Where we work
- Nyamata · Bugesera District
- Life School
- Rubavu District · Lake Kivu
- Women Economic Empowerment
- Lake Cyohoha · Bugesera District
- Farmers
Two districts, three programmes. Women Economic Empowerment runs in both, in Nyamata and in Rubavu. 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 Bugesera and Rubavu.
Photographs
