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Members of RP’s Reconciliation Team	Healing and Reconciliation in Action

 

Through our team of experienced and dedicated reconciliation ministers, Rwanda Partners is working to bring healing and reconciled relationships to the people of the Bugesera region – both victims and perpetrators. (Each member of this team is a survivor of the genocide who have personally experienced healing and reconciliation in their own lives.) This is done primarily through 3-day relational workshops that explore the dynamics of hatred and conflict and the unresolved issues that are blocking forgiveness and repentance. Perpetrators and victims/survivors who are open to reconciliation are invited to attend these workshops in their communities.

 

Income-Generating Projects
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Healing and Reconciliation are important for the restoration of Rwanda – but without poverty reduction, they won’t bring about lasting change in the lives of her people. Rwanda Partners provides income-generating projects to impoverished men and women who have participated in one of our healing and reconciliation workshops.

 

Former enemies now working together

 

Orphans’ Bee-Keeping and Honey Farm Project
This bee and honey farm project in the Gashora sector of the Bugesera Region will benefit 100 orphans who are caring for their younger siblings entirely on their own. These orphans, some of Rwanda's most vulnerable poor, will earn an income by raising bees for use by local farmers to help increase their crop yields through pollination as well as by producing honey for sale in the local market. There are approximately 10,000 orphans and 1,100 orphan-led households in Bugesera with no sustainable form of income. This bee and honey farm will provide them with the necessary means to provide for themselves and the younger orphans they care for.

 

Orphan-headed household that will benefit from this Farm Project	Bee House with Hives

 

Urunana Pineapple Plantation Project in Ruhuha
This pineapple plantation project benefits 70 widows/rape victims and 30 wives of incarcerated genocide perpetrators in the Bugesera region who attended RP sponsored-reconciliation workshops. By working together to maintain and manage this plantation, these women are not only furthering the reconciliation they have already achieved, but they are also providing much-needed food for their region while improving life for themselves and their families.

 

Urunana Pineapple Plantation

 

Wirira Widows’ Corn Grinder and Sales Shop Project
The 56 widows of the Wirira Widows Association are some of the most wounded and traumatized women of Rwanda. This corn grinder project will enable these women to not only earn an income that will provide them and their children with food, clothing and medical care but will also provide the community with this much-needed service.

 

Goretti of Wirira tries out the corn grinder	A store RP is renting for Wirira to sell products in

 

Gisenyi Reconciliation Team Boat Project
In 2005, Rwanda Partners implemented a reconciliation-support project in the Gisenyi region which included the purchase of a transport boat to help raise funds to support reconciliation programs in this region. This boat provides income to the Gisenyi Reconciliation Ministry by bringing people from the outlying areas on Lake Kivu into Gisenyi during the week to bring their goods and services to market. In addition it will also be used to transport goods and people from Gisenyi to other outlying regions. This will provide the Gisenyi reconciliation team with a sustainable income to promote reconciliation in their region.

 

The transport boat being built in Gisenyi

 

Animals for Impoverished Families
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Since 2005 Rwanda Partners has provided hundreds of animals (goats and chickens) to impoverished families in Rwanda - many of which are child-headed households or homes run by widows. These animals continue to make a real difference in the lives of these impoverished families – providing them with milk, cheese and eggs; fertilizer for their gardens; and offspring to sell at market.

 

A goat makes such a difference to an impoverished family!

Building Projects

 

Rwanda Partners’ "New Hope" Reconciliation & Equipping Center in Nyamata ("Ibyringiro Bishya")
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This Center is a place where the wounded people of the Bugesera region can come together to receive training in reconciliation, job skills, the creation of sustainable income-generating projects, evangelistic outreach and discipleship training as well to help them develop into the men, women and children that God has created them to be. In addition, the Center hopes to offer literacy training, basic health care education, training in establishing savings accounts and basic money management as well as several other helpful life-skills to the impoverished people of Bugesera.

 

The New Hope Center of Nyamata officially opens	The community is excited to see the new Center!

 

Center for Champions Street Kids Center
Rwanda Partners played a pivotal role in facilitating the vision and implementation of the Center for Champions – a residential and educational training facility for street youth in Rwamagana where Rwanda’s broken and wounded street children are given the support and encouragement they need to live out their dreams of a future filled with the hope of life off the streets. This project was financially supported by First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue (a US-based church) and is operated by African Evangelistic Enterprises/Rwanda (a Rwandan non-government organization). Opened in May 2008, the Center provides training in a residential setting for 200 children and will allow hundreds more from the community to benefit from the life-changing training that will be offered there.

 

A former street child is happy to have a home at the Center!	The Grand Opening of the Center for Champions in Rwamagana

 

These are just a few of the many projects that Rwanda Partners is offering to help alleviate poverty and reconcile Rwanda’s vulnerable poor.