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Become a business partner
As a business partner with RDSO you are one of our most valued assets. You can provide our trainees with work experience, internships or (even better) their dream, a paid, forever job. We’re also on hand to sell lovingly prepared coffee or jewellery at your events or workplaces.
Talent4U Programme
The RDSO Talent4U project seeks to build the capacity of RDSO’s beneficiaries to become capable and confident baristas and artisans. So far, fifteen young adults with Down Syndrome have been trained in barista and jewellery-making skills in partnership with Neo Cafe and Isabis Interiors. Our end-to-end support model is designed with the goal of ensuring that Down Syndrome people people …
Talent4U Project Debut
September 19th marked the first Saturday of training in the Talent4U Program. The RDSO Talent4U project seeks to build the capacity of RDSO’s beneficiaries to become capable and confident baristas and artisans. Hirwa Group is the first cohort in Talent4U, and they are set to be trained in making coffee and jewelry. The first session went smoothly as the Hirwa …
WDSD 2023: With Us Not For US
WDSD 2023 celebration was a true embodiment of this year’s theme, “With Us Not For Us.” Early in the morning of March 23rd, the reception area of a conference hall at Nobleza Hotel in Kicukiro district, where RDSO held the WDSD 2023 celebration, bustled with parents and their children as they registered and took pictures from a colorfully decorated photo …
RDSO celebrates OT Day
On October 27th, 2021, RDSO hosted a World Occupational Therapy Day at its office in Kicukiro. In partnership with a team of occupational therapists, RDSO organized a joyful day for young adults with Down Syndrome under the theme of this year, “BELONG. BE YOU.” Occupational therapy is a very important health care profession that assists patients in the development of …
Rwanda Celebrates WDSD 2021
On March 21st, RDSO hosted a celebration of World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD) at its office. The 2021 WDSD was celebrated with the COVID-19 guidelines in mind, thus only select individuals with Down Syndrome who are self-advocates together with their guardians, a number of guest speakers in the healthcare and special education profession, and the media were invited. As the …
Self-Advocacy Training Sessions Resume
After a long delay due to the COVID-19 lockdown in Kigali, the Rwanda Down Syndrome Organization (RDSO) has resumed self-advocacy training sessions this Saturday, February 27, 2021. For self-advocates, it was a happy moment to reunite with their colleagues, as many of them know each other from attending the same special schools, and all schools in Kigali have been closed …
COVID-19 Testing
Rwanda Down Syndrome Organization (RDSO) is no stranger to COVID-19 prevention measures and sensitizing its beneficiaries to the subject. Back in October 2020, RDSO conducted a COVID-19 workshop that aimed to teach young adults and their parents facts about COVID-19, the ways of preventing COVID-19, and the particular impact COVID-19 has on Down Syndrome population. RDSO has been diligent in …
Self-Advocacy Training (Debut Session)
The Saturday of 19th December 2020, Rwanda Down Syndrome Organization (RDSO) hosted its first self-advocacy session at its office. RDSO staff and volunteers welcomed guardians who brought the participants to the training and after registration, guardians would leave. Generally, we had a good turnout of self-advocacy group; there were 11 participants in total, all of them with Down syndrome except …