March 2013

Our first term of the new school year started very well. As usual there were many more requests for places than we could manage, which is good for us but sad for those children we could not accommodate. As we gain more experience the settling-in period is less of a...

January 2013

Happy New Year to everyone. I hope 2013 brings all good things for you. While I was away in the UK the children enjoyed some exciting times, first with Vincent and John, and then with Andrew and Richard, who came out from the UK to extend the holiday school. We are so...

December 2012

Useful links for this Newsletter: December Holiday fun with Vincent Dear friends around the world, I write to you at the end of another busy and successful year for the project. On my last day in Kigali in November I first went to a neighbouring primary school to be...

October 2012

Greetings from a wet Rwanda! The rainy season has begun in earnest, with tragic consequences for those whose mud-brick houses are swept away. Several people have been killed when their houses collapsed. Water is an unstoppable force as we in Britain know well this...

September 2012

Greetings from sunny Kigali. I have been here for three weeks and it seems as though I have never been away. Five months in the UK seemed a long time. I arrived back to many smiles and hugs, lots of happy children and staff. Word spread very quickly that I was back...

July 2012

This is a guest newsletter written by Ken McCallum, who visited us back in October 2011. Best wishes to you all, Meg It would be 7:AM. My alarm clock would ring and from the warmth of my comfortable bed in Battersea, I’d make my way to work and proceed through the day...