Teacher Education & Children's Enrichment

Every child deserves a teacher who knows how.

TEACH Rwanda works alongside Rwandan teachers, school leaders and whole school teams to build classrooms where children learn through play, projects and genuine curiosity.

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Who we are

An education organisation, not a charity appeal.

We began in 2012, when Louise Batamuriza opened one nursery classroom in Muhanga with a box of crayons and a floor mat. Today TEACH Rwanda trains teachers and the wider school team, from leaders to administration and finance staff, runs demonstration schools and shares what works with partner schools across the country.

Our work sits on a simple conviction: Rwandan children already have the curiosity. What too many classrooms lack is a teacher who has been shown, practically and patiently, how to build on it.

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Louise Batamuriza, who started Bright School in 2012, reading picture books with young children
The challenge

A crowded classroom is not a learning environment.

Across Rwanda, nursery and primary classrooms routinely hold forty or more children with a single teacher, few books and almost no learning materials. Memorisation fills the gap. Curiosity takes a backseat.

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Children in a typical nursery or primary classroom, with one teacher

2012

The year TEACH Rwanda's first classroom opened in Muhanga

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In‑service teachers supported through mentoring and training in 2024‑25

What we do

Three connected areas of work.

Teacher development, school partnership and demonstration are not separate programmes. Each one feeds the others.

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Teachers collaborating around a planning chart during a workshop

TEACH for Transformation

Our flagship mentoring system takes teachers from observing an exemplary classroom, through practical workshops, into coaching inside their own classrooms.

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A T4T mentor coaching a group of teachers around a table

Programmes & Services

School partnerships, leadership support, practical use of natural and locally available learning materials, and classroom furniture designed for how young children actually learn.

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A TEACH Rwanda robotics team working together on a build

Robotics & Innovation

Bright School hosted Rwanda's first FLL LEGO robotics team. Today the programme builds problem‑solvers using recycled, locally‑sourced materials.

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Our approach

Show the classroom. Then build the teacher.

Children sitting on the floor listening as their teacher reads a picture book

Teachers rarely change practice because they were told to. They change because they saw it work, tried it themselves, and had someone beside them while it went wrong the first time.

That is why every TEACH Rwanda partnership begins with observation in a working classroom, moves into small‑group workshops held in Kinyarwanda and English, and ends with coaching in the teacher’s own room with their own learners.

The approach is Rwandan‑led, grounded in the national Competence‑Based Curriculum, and taught largely by Rwandan educators who trained in these classrooms themselves.

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Our schools

Where the approach is proven.

Our schools are working classrooms first and demonstration sites second. Educators, researchers and government officials visit to see play- and project‑based learning in practice.

A group of children in red and blue climbing and smiling on the tyre wall

Bright School

Our flagship school in Muhanga. Nursery through Primary 6. In 2024‑25, 96.4% of its Primary 6 cohort passed the national examination, against a national average of 75.64%.

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The Harmony School building beside the Rwinkwavu Community Library

Harmony School

Opened in 2015 alongside the Rwinkwavu Community Library, bringing the same play‑based model to a rural community in the east.

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TEACH Rwanda staff meeting with partner school teachers

Partner Schools

Schools working through the TEACH for Transformation process towards TEACH Rwanda Standards, each with its own leadership and character.

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Life at TEACH Rwanda

What it looks like, day to day.

Children gathered on the floor around a shared book with a teacher
Bright School learners reading together in the library.
Three smiling children in light blue shirts holding open books in the library
Reading time, up close.
A child reading a bright illustrated magazine in the library
Lost in a book, comic in hand.
Pupils shaping clay bowls with their hands at an outdoor table
Clay, outdoors, hands first.
A teacher showing a book to two pupils in the library
Reading together in the library.
Two children laughing together on the playground tyre wall
Laughing on the tyre wall.
A boy smiling with his hand against his cheek, sitting cross-legged
A smile between lessons.
Close-up of a smiling toddler in a red kit with a friend waving behind
Curious faces.
A girl in a light blue shirt smiling and holding clay in her hands
Proud of her clay bowl.
Children painting on the floor of a terrace, shot from a low angle under blue sky
Painting outdoors, in the sun.
A girl in red smiling as she carries a blue basin along a balcony
Carrying water, smiling all the way.
Children brushing their teeth together in a hygiene lesson
Brushing teeth, together.
A boy smiling over a jigsaw puzzle on a table
Puzzle time.
A child swinging on wooden monkey bars under a bright blue sky
Monkey bars under a blue sky.
Children in red playing football on a dirt pitch
Football on the school pitch.
A Construction Club mentor working with a learner at a wooden sawhorse
Construction Club.
Learners at a robotics holiday programme session
The robotics holiday programme.
A student programming a robot through a maze challenge
Programming a robot through a maze.
A Construction Club discussion before building begins
Planning, before the building starts.
“What are you doing to my daughter? At home every day she is writing, organising things, doing calculation in math. She is independent.”
A parent of a Primary 1 learner, Bright School
Our people

Rwandan educators, and the people who back them.

TEACH Rwanda is led day to day by an in‑country team of Rwandan educators, supported by a governing board and an advisory council.

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TEACH Rwanda team members standing together outside the school, smiling
Get involved

Find the door that fits you.

Bright School children in red and blue uniforms cheering on the climbing wall with their teachers

I lead a school
Two teachers planning a lesson together at a workshop

I teach
A girl in red sports kit smiling at the camera from inside a playground tyre

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Staff and partners celebrating together

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Build the teacher. Change the classroom.

A gift to TEACH Rwanda funds mentoring, materials and the classrooms where Rwandan teachers learn their craft.

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