Inspiring hope.
Transforming lives.
We've been in Rwanda since 1995. The people we work with are mothers raising children on their own, students, farmers, and grandparents, and what they need is rarely the same twice. So the help changes shape to fit: counseling for one family, school fees for another, a small loan to get a business going. We don't come and go. We stay.
See how we helpA session in Rwanda
One ministry, four kinds of work
There are four parts to the work, and they lean on each other more than you'd think. A family that has found some peace tends to show up more steadily. The student we put through school is often the one a village leans on years later. And a woman earning her own money is usually the same woman making sure her kids stay in class.
How the work takes shape
Christian counseling & pastoral care
Care that stays in the community
Some things are easier to carry when you're not carrying them alone. We offer counseling and pastoral care grounded in faith, and every year we train 20 people from the villages to do this work themselves. They sit with their own neighbors through grief, worry, and the seasons that knock you flat. Long after the training ends, that care is still there.
Economic empowerment initiative
Three ways to build a living
Small loans give women the money and the skills to start a business that fits their village. Our farming program provides seeds and teaches families to grow enough to eat, with some left over. And at the sewing school, women learn to make clothes and crafts they can sell. Three routes to the same thing: a family that can stand on its own.
Children's tuition & health insurance
School, fully covered
No child should miss school because the family can't cover it. We pay tuition, uniforms, and supplies from primary school all the way through college, and we cover health insurance for the student and their family too. Over the past seven years, 45 of our students have finished high school and 3 have made it through college.
Community seminars
Villages led well
We run workshops for local leaders on governing well, settling disputes without violence, and keeping people healthy. There are sessions on marriage and parenting, and steady support for mothers raising kids on their own. Over time, a village learns to look after its own.
Inside the work in Rwanda
A couple of short videos that show what this looks like for the families themselves.
"When I first came to the group, I could barely speak. The counselor never rushed me. A year later, I'm the one who sits beside the new women and tells them it gets lighter."
A participant in the counseling program
"Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."
Matthew 25:40
Send a student to school for a year
For one student, sponsorship covers tuition, uniforms, supplies, and health insurance for them and their family. It's about the most direct way we know to put your gift to work in a child's life.
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