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Inspiring Deeds (Part 3)
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
This is the third in a series of three short shout-outs this week about individuals or groups who are actively doing good works in Rwanda. Each of the groups has become a Speak Rwanda friend in the last week making use of our Kinyarwanda travel language materials.
Hope for a Thousand Hills is a non-profit initiative focused on the restoration of the Cyimbili Coffee Plantation in western Rwanda. The project aims to rehabilitate a once productive plantation, and through it rebuild the local economy. The transformation will carry over into necessary community development projects which include: providing clean water, sanitary systems and electrical power generation to meet the urgent needs of a people, and to bring healing and hope to those who long for reconciliation with their neighbor… and their Creator.
Cyimbili’s lush green hills on the shores of Lake Kivu are breathtaking. The people who live in those hills grabbed hold of my heart. However, for their lives to change for the better, three things need to happen. Relief: The people need clean running water, electricity, and a functioning, safe sanitation system to reduce the risk of disease and other potential health crises. Restoration: Dilapidated buildings, inaccessible roads, and spent coffee trees need to be replaced, fixed, and renewed. This plantation has incredible potential to help the lives of its community, but it can’t reach that potential until it is restored. Renewal: As I listened to the young people who crowded around us, they spoke of the need to know–”really know”–that God has a good purpose and a plan for their lives and that He has not forgotten them. They need new hope.
–Jamie Longo, Founder
We all look forward to seeing the progress in this coffee community.
–Diana Dettwyler
Speak Rwanda Web Admin
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One Teacher’s Adventure
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Fulbright scholar, Diana Perdue, is having the adventure of her life right now in Kigali. Her blog, Rwanda Reflections chronicles her teaching and living adventures in Kigali Rwanda. Speak Rwanda has become “Facebook pen-pals” with her for several months now and I always look forward to reading the latest about life in Kigali.
-Diana Dettwyler
Speak Rwanda Web Admin
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Inspiring Deeds (Part Two)
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
The Point Foundation is a charity based in the UK whose mission is to support orphans. The objective of the Foundation is to raise sufficient funding to bring love, care, compassion and education to transform the lives of orphaned children around the world, but principally in Africa, from birth to 18 years of age.
“Five years ago we started privately funding a school we came across in a community near Phinda Game Reserve, Kwala Zulu Natal…but it was on a business visit to Rwanda that my husband Charlie came across the Noel Orphanage, when he visited the Pfunda tea plantantion nearby…and was so heartbroken by the plight of the 700 orphans he pledged to help them there and then, and so we offcially set up and registered the Point Foundation.”
Today the Foundation raises funds and provides on the ground support for 5 major projects helping around 2500 children, most of whom are orphaned and live in institutions.
Visit The Point Foundation website and fall in love with these beautiful children!
http://www.pointfoundation.co.uk/index.html
-Diana Dettwyler
Speak Rwanda Web Admin
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Inspiring Deeds by Ordinary People (Part one)
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
We continue to be amazed at the acts of charity from individuals all over the world who have become Speak Rwanda friends. Every week I read about teams traveling to Rwanda, or organizations founded to care for orphans. This week, I had the privilege of meeting (virtually) three different groups whose stories I’d like to highlight here.
Grace Rwanda society was founded by 2 Rwandan Genocide survivors, Elizabeth Johnson and Marie Louise Kaligirwa. Elizabeth and Marie now devote their lives to rebuild and restore the hope and future of Rwanda through its children, youth and communities.
Their current project is to rebuild a school and recreational facility, which will give the children in the community of Rwinkwavu a chance to enhance their educational experience.
By Diana Dettwyler
Speak Rwanda Web Admin
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