Rwanda Aid - How to Help

How to Help

Rwanda Aid supports needy and disadvantaged people in Cyangugu
There is a UK Executive Manager in Cyangugu with the following responsibilities:
- Build and train an effective Rwandan management team
- Set up and oversee all projects, ensuring effective budgeting and cost control
- Provide regular and detailed feedback to the trustees and donors

Any donations, great or small, will be used directly to further the work of Rwanda Aid in Cyangugu. Donate on line at justgiving.com, or alternatively send your donations to:

Neville Chaplin
Tryfan
Bridge Road
Reydon
Suffolk
IP18 6RR

Cheques should be made payable to Rwanda Aid. If it is possible to include a completed Gift Aid form, tax can be reclaimed on your gift.

Projects for which we still need funding and some we have already completed in 2009 are shown below:

Project	Funding Amount	Status
Village for disabled children	£ 100,000	Completed
Nursery School on Nkombo Island	£ 10,000	Completed
Emergency help on Nkombo Island	£ 15,000	Completed
New Primary School at Mpinga	£ 80,000	Completed
Extending primary schools to accommodate three extra year groups	£ 10,000 per classroom	Funding Required
Provide further "progressive" housing for the homeless, especially on Nkombo island	£ 2,500 per house	Funding Required
Pig and a pen	£ 150	Funding Required
4 rabbits with hutches	£ 100	Funding Required
Classroom equipment pack	£ 100	Funding Required
Train a farmer, with follow-up	£ 100	Funding Required
Taxi bicycle	£ 75	Funding Required
Sewing machine	£ 75	Funding Required
Tree nursery - carbon sequestration, soil conservation, timber, firewood and fruit - 1,500 seedlings. Click for more info	£ 50	Funding Required
Goat	£ 25	Funding Required

Click here to donate now.

If you would like any further information, or to contact Rwanda Aid, please email info@rwanda-aid.org

Fundraising

On 1st September 2009, Nick Smallwood will be cycling across Scotland for Rwanda Aid. As Nick says: "As a ten year old, I lost all four of my front teeth in a spectacular crash while cycling round Bewl water reservoir. I shunned bicycles for two years afterwards. Even now, I can't shake a feeling of angst when I slip my feet into the pedals of one of these two wheeled death traps.

What better way to banish those demons than to cycle across Scotland, West to East, hop on a ferry to South Uist, cycle around that, then return from whence we came?"

Click this link to go to Nick’s fundraising page and sponsor his efforts.

Michael Bush is running the Bupa Great South 2009 and hopes to run in regular events to raise money for Rwanda Aid in the future. The great south run is only a 2.5 mile race but as Michael is 15 years old he can’t do longer races.

The reason he chose Rwanda Aid was from watching the film ‘Hotel Rwanda’.

Click this link to go to Michael’s fundraising page at Justgiving.com.

Past Events and Other Information

SECRET GARDEN BALL

The King's House School arranged a Charity Ball with proceeds going to Rwanda Aid. The Ball was held in the beautiful Secret Garden of Syon House, Isleworth on 21st June 2008.

Over 400 revellers enjoyed the evening - mainly staff and parents of King's House School and The Old Vicarage School (both in Richmond, Surrey).

An auction at the Ball raised the incredible sum of £33,000. A school fete raised a further £1,700 and the sale of the King's House compilation cook book brought in another £1,000. These sums were all generously donated to the work of Rwanda Aid in Cyangugu!

Rwanda Aid would like to thank all those who attended the Ball and the Fete - especially those who donated items and bid for them in the auction!

SHOOTING DOGS is an emotionally gripping and authentic recreation of a tragic real life story that took place at L'Ecole Technique Officielle during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Filmed at the actual location where this story took place, a number of genocide survivors make up the film's cast & crew.

This is not just a film about Rwanda. It is a film about humanity, and the questions each one of us must confront, wherever in the world we may be, when evil threatens to steal the very basis of this humanity away from us.

For more information on Shooting Dogs visit the film website