Rwanda Travelers
Emerging Countries, Humans and OSTEOpaths
Financial information
What the association supports :
- your accommodation for 14 days, booked by us.
- your breakfasts.
- hostel-hospital journeys.
What remains to be defined according to the subsidies:
- your lunches on consultation days.
What is your responsibility :
- flights plane tickets.
- your dinners and lunches on your free days.
- your visits and outings.
Money
Distributeurs et paiement par carte disponible dans les grandes villes.
Attention en dehors des zones urbaines le paiement digitalisé se fait rare.
choix de carte sans frais à l'étranger :
Boursorama Fortuneo revolut.com et bien d'autres néo-banques.
Nous vous invitons également à vous renseigner auprès de votre banque actuelle.
Notez que le pourboire est une habitude assez répandue même s’il n’est pas obligatoire. Les salaires rwandais sont bas, et un pourboire d’environ 10% sera apprécié dans les restaurants, les hôtels ou même les safaris.
Le prix d'un repas dans un restaurant normal est de 20'000RWF - 13€
Meals & Health
Meals are often plentiful and varied.
It is customary to leave a tip of 10% of the bill.
You must be up to date with the following vaccinations : Covid, DTP (polio) and MMR (measles).
It may be recommended - depending on visits - to be up to date with the following vaccinations: typhoid, viral hepatitis (A, B), bacterial meningitis.
In some areas of Rwanda, malaria, dengue fever, rabies, meningitis, cholera and typhoid fever have been reported.
Regarding sexually transmitted diseases, it is recommended to take all the usual precautions in this area and to avoid risky behavior.
Addresses
You will be working at the Southern Cross Hospital
from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Your hostel is located at KG 165 St, Kigali, Rwanda
To always have these addresses with you, please "follow" our Google Maps account below. Don't forget to download an offline map before you leave.
Mobility
Only licensed taxis should be used. Public transportation is limited.
Some volunteers have taken motorcycle taxis, this remains your responsibility.
We provide group transfers from hostel to hospital and from hostel to airport.
For your visits, we have listed the most popular addresses in the google.maps link below.
Regarding communications, hospitals, hostels and restaurants have Wi-Fi.
However, if you want to have data (mobile internet network) there are several solutions:
- check the amount and terms with your mobile operator
- buy a local SIM card
- buy an e.sim (sim with data only, check if your smartphone accepts e.sim formats - digital sim) - Ubigi