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 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...
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 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....
March 2009 March and I am back in the UK after what has felt like endless hours in offices waiting for papers and getting all the things prepared so that we are properly regulated. However, all papers are in order now and we are registered in the appropriate places....
Swimming with sharks Please sponsor Martin Ellison to go swimming with the 10ft long sand tiger sharks, lemon sharks, nurse sharks, bamboo sharks and stingrays at the Blue Planet Aquarium Visit my Just Giving page to donate http://www.justgiving.com/martinellison...
Coast to Coast “We are so very grateful to Ben and Helen Honisett for their amazing support for our project. To Helen who is responsible for building our lovely new website and for Ben, who is proposing a mammoth task to raise much-needed funds for us. The money...
School’s in! So, January and a new year starts. Big problems, because Evariste was bombarded with requests for places. Around 40 or so more children than we could accommodate arrived during the first couple of weeks. Evariste had a hard time refusing and one...
RATs in Rwanda! Who are the RATs? As you will have noticed, this newsletter looks different from the ones you usually receive from Meg. That’s because Meg hasn’t written it. The RATs have! Who are the RATs? Well we are 4 teenagers all from the Barrow area...
Sun and smiles in January !! Lovely to be back and see everyone again. Tuesday January 20th 2009 A very special day for the tailoring class. We have our first graduates. They have completed 6 months training and we had a celebratory presentation of certificates, the...
