Make a dent in the universe – Volunteer!

You could expect to live to be 58 if you were born in Rwanda today. Rwanda needs better software for health to save and improve the lives of its 11 million people.

We’re building an open source web app with Ruby on Rails to track all the donor programs in the country for health. To know where the money goes and what difference it made.  To increase transparency and accountability. To know more and make better decisions. And once it’s ready, it can spread all over Africa.

We’re building it with local software developers. We’re working together to learn and teach how to solve problems like this, so Rwandans can better solve their own problems. We want sustainable solutions for the long term.

We need you. We need your passion and creativity to solve these hard problems together.

Let us know if you’re interested in helping out and sharing your passion at bit.ly/RwandaOnRails . Your time and creativity can make a lasting difference. After you fill out this form we will contact / follow up with you soon!

We’re doing this as a part of the Health Systems 20/20 USAID project.

The website you’re on now held the materials for the first training we did on Ruby on Rails in Rwanda. We couldn’t have done it without the enthusiastic support of USAID, the Rwandan Ministry of Health, 3 great volunteers and 15 equally awesome local developers. You can learn more about them on the About Us webpage. We’ll be coming up with a site for the whole project soon – let us know if you want to help with that too.

You can learn more about Rwanda at the CIA World Factbook.

Thanks!