Certificate of Legal Personality
N° 884/RGB/NGO/LP/03/2023Granted 1 March 2023 by the Rwanda Governance Board, confirming B2H as a Non-Governmental Organisation in conformity with Rwandan law.
Wounds you can’t see, healed in ways you can measure.
Build2Heal is a Rwandan NGO that heals psychosocial wounds, so young people, parents and whole communities can rebuild meaningful lives. Since 2021 we have taken mental health to university campuses, community meetings, schools and national radio, with the paperwork to prove it.
Legal Personality N° 884/RGB/NGO/LP/03/2023, granted by the Rwanda Governance Board on 1 March 2023. Domain of intervention: health.
Imigongo, the geometric art of eastern Rwanda.The crack closes as you scroll.
Funders ask for proof. Here it is, on the record.
Every claim on this page comes from documents filed with the Rwanda Governance Board, Gasabo District and Kacyiru Sector. Tap a certificate to read it in full.
Operational Certificate
N° 874/RGB/NGO/OC/04/2021Issued 13 April 2021. Our first year of programmes ran under this certificate, followed by a full annual report to RGB.
Annual report filedFY 2021–2022 submitted to RGB on 20 August 2022, copied to Gasabo District and Kacyiru Sector.
RWF 18,000,000Action-plan budget for FY 2021–2022, reported to RGB as fully executed.
Signed MoUWith the Clinical Psychology Students Association of Rwanda (CPSAR) to train young mental health leaders.
Four functioning organsGeneral Assembly, Executive Committee, Conflict Resolution and Audit committees, with minutes on file.
What we did in our first eighteen months.
We started during COVID-19 restrictions, so we went where people already were: campuses, radio, television and social media. These figures are the ones we reported to the government.
2,000+students mobilised in outreach campaigns across three University of Rwanda campuses: Rusizi, Nyagatare and Remera.Report to RGB, 2022
60%of Rwanda’s territory covered by the radio stations that carried our talk shows, reaching thousands more listeners.Q3 2022 media report
500+people reached in community meetings in Kacyiru, Gisozi and Gahara.Report to RGB, 2022
9radio talk shows on depression, addiction, bipolar disorder and stigma in Feb–Mar 2022 alone.Q3 2022 media report
120+students and youth leaders at our peace-building seminar on the role of psychology.Q4 2022 report
Registered and operating
RGB grants our Operational Certificate. We set up an office in Gasabo District and recruit a volunteer team.
Governance before growth
Our Executive, Conflict Resolution and Audit committees meet to adopt quarterly reporting, draft internal rules and introduce an annual conflict-of-interest statement for every member.
World Mental Health Week on campus
With student-led initiatives, the Rwanda Biomedical Centre, the University of Rwanda and a UNICEF-sponsored campaign, we toured Nyagatare and Rusizi campuses under the theme “Mental health in an unequal society”, ending with a candlelit walk.
Mental health on national TV and community radio
On Isango TV’s Partner Show we discussed the social welfare of persons with disabilities and their mental health. On Umucyo Community Radio we spoke to young listeners about mental health difficulties in Rwanda.
A nine-episode radio series with CPSAR
Broadcast on Life Radio 96.0 FM, Radio Inkoramutima 107.1 FM and Umucyo Community Radio 102.8 FM.
- Spiritual development and youth well-being
- A meaningful life as an antidote to depression
- Supporting someone with depression
- Stigma, prejudice and discrimination
- Mental health and substance use
- Bipolar disorder
- From depression to a meaningful life
- Attachment and addiction
Healing through work and family
We mentored youth representatives in Kacyiru Sector on mental health through employment and entrepreneurship, and mobilised parents on positive parenting at G.S. Mugogo, Gahara Sector, Kirehe District.
Schools, youth and peace-building
Awareness sessions in Kacyiru schools and youth groups, and a seminar on “The relevance of psychology in peace-building” with more than 120 University of Rwanda and IPRC Huye students and youth leaders, held in Remera and Huye.
Legal Personality granted
After a full year of reporting, RGB grants B2H Legal Personality, the status that lets us sign grant agreements and scale.
Heal 2030: six programmes for the problems young Rwandans face now.
Our early work proved people will talk about mental health when someone opens the door. The next phase meets today’s pressures head on: life online, climate shocks, joblessness and the long shadow of trauma.
Mind the Feed
Youth digital wellbeing: cyberbullying, social comparison, doom-scrolling and online betting. Peer-led school clubs and campus chapters, plus short-form psychoeducation in Kinyarwanda on the platforms young people use.
Digital harm is now a leading youth wellbeing concern worldwide.
Healing Circles
Community-based psychosocial support through trained lay counsellors and peer supporters, using task-sharing approaches recommended by the WHO. Group sessions address grief, intergenerational trauma and social cohesion.
Task-sharing closes the gap where specialists are few.
Work That Heals
Mental health woven into livelihoods: youth savings groups, cooperative management and income-generating skills for young people affected by drug use and domestic violence.
Economic stress and poor mental health feed each other.
Families First
Positive parenting, early childhood development and perinatal mental health, so children grow up in homes that regulate emotion rather than pass on harm.
Built on our Kirehe parenting work.
Climate and Crisis Resilience
Psychological first aid for communities hit by floods and landslides, and support for young people’s climate anxiety, linked to climate-resilient livelihoods.
Climate shocks are now a mental health event, not only a physical one.
Kinyarwanda Digital Care
Radio, podcasts, WhatsApp and USSD channels that deliver psychoeducation and route people to human counsellors, using responsible AI tools in Kinyarwanda with clear safeguards and data protection.
Reaching rural listeners who will never visit a clinic.
Across every programmeDisability inclusionGender equality and GBV survivorsSubstance useYouth leadershipMeasured outcomes
From proof of concept to national scale.
Where we stand from our reported first year, and the 2030 targets your partnership makes possible.
| Measure | Reported 2021–22 | Target by 2030 |
|---|---|---|
| Young people reached in schools and campuses | 2,000+ | 25,000 |
| Community members in in-person sessions | 500+ | 10,000 |
| Lay counsellors and peer supporters trained | Pilot | 500 |
| Parents in positive-parenting programmes | 1 school community | 3,000 |
| Youth savings groups running | Started | 60 |
| Districts with active programmes | 5 | 15 |
| People reached through radio, TV and digital channels | Thousands | 250,000 |
SDG 3.4 mental health and wellbeingSDG 4 safe learningSDG 5 gender equalitySDG 8 decent work for youthSDG 16 peaceful societiesWHO Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2030Rwanda National Strategy for Transformation (NST2)
How a grant turns into recovery.
Each programme follows the same path, so every franc can be traced from first conversation to lasting change.
Awareness
Radio, campus and community dialogues break silence and stigma.
Access
Peer supporters screen, listen and refer people to care.
Recovery
Group support, counselling and family sessions restore function.
Livelihood
Savings groups and skills keep recovery standing.
How we measure
- Validated tools before and after support, such as PHQ-9, GAD-7 and WHO-5
- Disaggregated data by age, gender, disability and district
- Quarterly activity reports with photo and media evidence
- Independent review for multi-year grants
How we report
- Annual narrative and financial reports to RGB and local government
- Donor reports in your format and on your schedule
- Audit committee review of spending
- Annual conflict-of-interest statement signed by every member
Governed in the open.
B2H is run by a committed volunteer team and governed by four statutory organs that meet, decide and keep minutes.
10Founding members in the General Assembly
5Members of the Executive Committee
3Members of the Conflict Resolution Committee
2Members of the Audit Committee
Executive Committee
Onesphore DushimirimanaPresident and Legal Representative
Patient KwizeraDeputy and Vice Legal Representative
Serge KayitareSecretary
Marie Josée UwiduhayeTreasurer
Claire Deborah IngabireAdvisor
Programme partners
- Clinical Psychology Students Association of RwandaSigned MoU
- University of Rwanda, Centre for Mental Health
- Rwanda Biomedical CentreCampus campaign partner
- UNICEFSponsored the 2021 campus campaign
- Nkurage for Charity Organization
Youth-led allies
- You Matter Initiative
- GlobeMed
- MEDSAR and RPSA
- IMFURA Heritage Rwanda
- Feel Better Initiative
- Mental Health Journal Rwanda
Media partners
- Life Radio 96.0 FM
- Umucyo Community Radio 102.8 FM
- Radio Inkoramutima 107.1 FM
- Radio Salus 97.0 and 101.9 FM
- Isango TV, The Partner Show
Fund the next chapter of healing in Rwanda.
We welcome programme grants, multi-year core support, technical partnerships and in-kind media time. Ask us for our document pack: certificates, statutes, annual reports, minutes and our MoU.
- Phone+250 782 495 374
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- Emailbuildtoheal@gmail.com
- OfficeKacyiru, Gasabo District, Kigali, Rwanda