Nyamirambo Women’s Centre

Are you planning to visit Rwanda and looking out for what places to visit in Kigali city, Nyamirambo women’s Centre is one of those places to go to on your Kigali city tour that will give you such an extraordinary sense of feeling about Kigali and the entire Rwanda.

Kigali city is Rwanda’scapital with approximately over one million people, Kigali is well renowned as the cleanliest city in Africa, some define it as the green capital with all the green trees clearly well aligned on almost all the roadsides of Kigali city.

Kigali hosts quite a number of tourist attractions in Rwanda such;

Kigali genocide memorial museum, Kimironko Market, Niyo art gallery, Mt Kigali, Nyamata church, Ntarama church, and Nyamirambo Women’sCentre among many others.

However, in this blog article, we try to look at Nyamirambo Women’sCentre in detail. However, you may check out other tourist attractions in Rwanda and other travel-related information in our other blogs from our website.

NyamiramboWomen’s Centre is a non-governmental organization in Kigali – community-based tourism oriented and it was founded in 2017 by 18 Rwandan women from Nyamirambo Kigali. They developed the idea of starting an initiative to fight gender-based violence, inequality and prejudice. Today Nyamirambo Women’sCentre aims at women skilling and empowerment through vocational training helping them to achieve better opportunities and improved life.

Things to do in Nyamirambo Women’s Centre in Kigali;

 There are quite a number of tourist activities conducted at Nyamirambo Centre and these have enhanced the number of visitors at the site in the recent past most especially for those on Kigali city tours who tend to spare some time and visit the women’s Centre. And these include;

Walking tours; Nyamirambo women’s Centre organizes walking tours at the centre and within Kigali city, and this is done particularly to give you a clear background and relevant information about the centre and introduce you to Rwanda’s friendliest natives. Walking tours at Nyamirambo Women’sCentre begin with a simple briefing at the Centre by the area’s local informative and helpful guide that guides you all through the walk. The walk may last between 1 to 2hrs and this starts with a simple local snack.

Walking tours at Nyamirambo Women’s Centre have been so greatly recommended by those who have had a chance to participate in them, talking about how it’s such an amazing opportunity to meet and interact with the locals, share a moment to learn and understand Rwanda quite much better and know about their culture.

Sisal weaving experience. The fact that this women’sCentre is mainly run by Rwandan nationals, everything done here is truly African and represents the rich Rwandan culture.

If interested you will be guided on how basket weaving is done with a needle after which you can as well hold the needle and try on the weaving experience. Hopefully, this experience makes time spent here worth it and worth a visit to Nyamirambo Women’s Centre.

Cooking classes with the local women; traditional cooking classes at Nyamirambo Women’sCentre are such a whole vibe to all that get involved in the adventure. Cooking lessons are conducted with the help of Mrs. Aminatha at her home who is their best guide so far for the local food cooking classes. The lessons start with deliveries of the foodstuffs and vegetables to prepare, aprons are given to those willing to participate in the cooking experience. Six local food dishes are prepared and, in the end, food is served to all that have taken up the cooking experience. This is truly another hands-on experience with the locals that will definitely be the highlight of your Kigali city tour with Gorilla holidays and with all this Nyamirambo women’s Centre remains such a place to visit while in Kigali Rwanda.

Caplaki craft village Kigali Rwanda.

 Caplaki craft village is situated in the capital of Rwanda Kigali city, renowned as the home of handmade crafts and a Centre for all your African shopping styles. Caplaki craft centre hosts about 40 wooden huts-like structures which make it up a craft village. There is a variety of beautiful crafts selling jewelry, household items, bags, baskets, carved woods, wooden face masks, and cotton fabrics among so many others. All the items sold here are all African from Uganda Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and DR – Congo. If you’re planning to visit Rwanda and Kigali city and you would like to go shopping and grab yourself souvenirs for a memorable Rwanda safari, Kaplika craft village is the place to be.

Why visit Kigali Rwanda with Gorilla holidays?

 The main reason why you should think about visiting Rwanda with Gorilla holidays is simply that we have unmatched experience in hosting Kigali travellerswith over 10 years of experience organizing Rwanda safari tours to our esteemed clients from various corners of Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Asiaamong so many others.

We are also highly reviewed and recommended by trip advisors as one of the top tour operators in Kigali. Most of our Rwanda tours begin or end with a Kigali city tour depending on the time one has for their safari trip in Rwanda. Contact Gorilla holidays and talk to an expert in planning Rwanda gorilla tours, cultural, wildlife and chimpanzee safaris.

Nyamata Genocide Memorial.

 This Memorial Centre is in a former church “Nyamata church” about 30km South of Kigali city in Rwanda which is one of the six national memorial sites that commemorate the Rwanda genocide in 1994. A big number of people across the world must have heard and known about Rwanda through the 1994 genocide that claimed over 1 million innocent people and this was massively published and broadcasted locally and internationally. Most of them recall the genocide through a movie titled Hotel Rwanda.

Rwanda since the end of the genocide has immensely tried to recover and heal from one of the most horrific acts to mankind. Numbers of travellers that visit the Rwanda genocide memorial site have been seen increasing to date. And most of these come to witness and get firsthand information about what exactly happened in Rwanda during the time of the genocide. The other national genocide memorial sites in Rwanda include;the Kigali genocide memorial, Ntarama GenocideMemorial, murambi memorial, Bissero Genocide Memorial centre, and Nyarubuye Memorial.The Rwanda genocide started in April 1994 whereby many Tutsi people gathered at Nyamata church as churches were mostly considered as a place of safety.

About 10,000 people gathered here and the people locked themselves within the Nyamata church, up-to-date church walls show how the ruthless perpetrators made holes in the walls of the church so that grenades could be thrown into the church. After this, the people inside were shot or killed with machetes. The ceiling of the church well shows the bullet holes and the altar cloth full of blood stains for the people that were murdered here. Most of the remains have been buried but clothing and identification cards are still seen here. Identification cards were what helped to identify people as either Tutsi or Hutu as this was majorly a war over ethnicity. People in the neighboring and surrounding area were also killed after the massacre at the church. The remains and bodies of about 50,000 people are buried here.