Yesterday our business manager, Emmy, and I traveled into Kigali (1:45min) to first pick up our nonprofit document that was signed and to meet with the electric company about getting power to our house and projects. Our meeting with the electric company went from one office to another. Finally we were directed to the office across town for the program called-Rural Roll Out Program. The Program has criteria that must be met (i.e. distance to nearest power lines, number of potential customers...) if those criteria are met we then qualify for a significant discount off the $250,000 quote that we have already received. The frustrating part is that it has taken 11 months to finally be directed to the correct department. We now will resubmit an application to this department and see if we qualify.
Between traveling to the different offices we decided to stop and pick up our nonprofit documents. We arrived at the Ministry of Justice Department and were told that the document was not ready. I reminded the woman that she had just called us yesterday to tell us we could pick it up. She told us to come back in one hour and it would be ready. So long story, somewhat short, we did receive our documents! We now need to submit them to be published in a Gazette for $400...THEN we will be an official NGO (nongovernment organization)!
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