Girl Effect Rwanda

Girl Effect Rwanda is a project to improve the lives of women and girls in Rwanda.

Publishing

The mobile site runs at http://www.ninyampinga.com/ and is hosted in South Africa.

Messaging

We use RapidPro and Junebug to interact with users.

RapidPro and Junebug run in 3 containers in South Africa:

  • RapidPro web

  • RapidPro celery

  • Junebug

SMS

We use the shortcode 1019 to send and receive SMS messages.

We have Junebug config for both Mtech and MTN.

  • Mtech is an aggregator for Tigo and Airtel users and we connect directly to them over SMPP

  • MTN require that we establish an IPsec connection from vumi-gateway and then connect over SMPP

USSD

The USSD code is *900#.