Project / 4th Quarter 2023

Empower Hubs by Journeyman International

by Bhawna Jaimini

REVIVING RURAL ECONOMIES

Joanna Nsenga is a young architect who studied on the west coast in the United States before returning back to her home country, Rwanda, to put her architectural skills to use to improve the lives of local communities. Empower Hubs—now called Kinvest Commons—was one of the first projects she worked on after joining Journeyman International, a humanitarian architecture nonprofit, which started in the United States but has a firm presence in Rwanda.

Before image of the building in Nyenyeri < > Empower Hub in Nyenyeri after redevelopment < > < >

“More than 90 per cent of the population of Rwanda is rural who are in need of economic opportunities within and around their villages,” Nsenga ...

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