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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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The Joy of Making New Friends
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
One of most exciting things about Speak Rwanda is the new friends we’ve begun to make through the development and release of Speak Rwanda Basic, the Kinyarwanda travel language audio download lessons. What we are beginning to realize is that there are incredible stories of faith and love being written between the lives of Rwandans and ourselves here in the States.
One new friend is Michelle Schmidt who is traveling for the first time to Rwanda today June 17, 2009 with a group from her church as well as individuals from around the region. She’s the official trip blogger for the team and is a gifted writer. Michelle also possesses a unique God-given, heartfelt love for Rwanda and her new friends there.
Check out both of her blogs to see and hear how the team is getting along as well as her story regarding Rwanda.
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Meeting People Who Love Rwanda
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
I am very excited to announce the release of the Basic Series of Speak Rwanda audio lessons! The Kinyarwanda language lessons are now available to download from our website.
While we’ve kept a little quiet about release of these lessons (while we work out a few bugs), I have already met some wonderful people who are changing lives in Rwanda.
This week I met Megan Swanson from Seattle. Megan is determined to learn Kinyarwanda, and immediately wanted the Advanced version, not Basic. I could tell right away that she’s very committed to Rwanda. Megan shared a little of her story with me…
“My involvement in Rwanda started last summer when I did an internship there with a Rwandan church. Through that opportunity, I learned about the plight of street children and after developing strong relationships with several street boys and Rwandan leaders who wanted to impact this situation, we decided we had to do something together. We now operate a children’s home for 11 street boys, and have rescued 8 kids out of jail. Our website is www.hopeforlifeministry.org . I’m going back to Rwanda for 6-12 months in November so I am always looking for resources to better learn the language before I go again!”
Wow! Way to go Megan! I wish you the best in learning Kinyarwanda and also with raising money for your ministry. I hope someone sees this post and decides to donate!
I look forward to hearing every story of why someone wants to learn Kinyarwanda!
Serena Morones
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Tony & Serena Morones are founders of Speak Rwanda and are actively involved in the lives of many Rwandans through ministry and business. They live and work in Portland, Oregon.
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