SaCoDé
SaCoDé
Broader Sectors
- Health - Afya/Health
- Livelihoods - Lokumu/Dignity
Demographic Focus
- Youth
- Women and Girls
Cohort: 02
- East Africa
- Burundi
SaCoDé is an organization dedicated to unlocking opportunities for women and youth in Burundi. Their organization is focused on providing reproductive health products and services alongside economic empowerment programs that help women and youth enjoy healthy and financially independent lives. SaCoDé is the only local organization in Burundi using technology to reach out and engage youth in Burundi on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) through their SMS-based Health Education and Financial Inclusion content.
Partner Impact
Leadership Highlight
Grâce Françoise Nibizi
Founder
Grace Françoise founded SaCoDé in 2010 with a vision to empower disadvantaged women and youth. Before founding SaCoDé, Françoise served as a nurse, volunteered in refugee camps in Kenya, and held multiple administrative roles at International organizations such as Catholic Relief Services, UNIFEM, UNHCR, UNDP, and the European Union. Grace now oversees an SMS platform that connects women and youth to vital health and economic empowerment information, counselling, community, and health centers. She has also played a major part in the life-changing initiative to distribute the Agateka sanitary pad to underprivileged school girls in Burundi. Françoise holds a degree in Economics and Social Administration from the University of Lake Tanganyika. She also has diplomas in International Business Management & Administration from the Institute of Commercial Management (ICM) of Bournemouth, England.
At SaCoDé we do what we do because we want Burundians to live in environments where complete physical, mental, financial and social wellbeing prevail, and where individuals and groups can fulfill their needs, identify and achieve their aspirations, influence their environments or adapt to them.
