January 2010

Our feeding programme We began our feeding programme in 2007 when we moved into our new premises. Children in the nursery class received African porridge, which is a mixture of sorghum and maize flours and sugar boiled together to thicken, sometimes we added bread,...

December 2009

Time to celebrate – something to smile about. A good time to take stock and reflect on what has been achieved in the project so far. Those of you who have been with us from that very small beginning at the end of 2006 will remember that, when I stumbled upon...

November 2009

November 2009 Time seems to be running away with me and we are already mid-November, so this news will be short, in anticipation of a more comprehensive account in December. I was in Kigali from late August to early November to see the end of the school year. The...

September 2009

September Update I arrived back in Kigali to find everyone very busy and very happy. The children are doing well and so are the adults. The tailors have new orders from a Jewish organisation, the jewellers have attended classes and have begun to make paper beads. For...

June 2009

May/June 2009 A short trip to Rwanda for the wedding of a friend and a visit to the project meant that May passed with out a newsletter! Many good things are happening in Kigali, the children love coming to school and the hats from Matthew’s nana are very...

April 2009

April News April 2009 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the beginning of the genocide of 1994 in Rwanda. The whole country will be remembering and commemorating those terrible times in different ways. There is a plant in the forest which flowers every fifteen years....