Children's Villages
Welfare
Health Care
Schools
Vocational training/farming
Youth and micro-financing
CHILDREN'S VILLAGES
AIMS
- To provide foster homes for children up to the age of sixteen who have been neglected or rejected by their families because of physical or mental disability.
- To provide foster homes for orphan children who are unable to be supported in their own homes and communities because of the absence of older, responsible siblings or other willing relations or neighbours. In particular it seeks to support 'street children.
- To place children in small, comfortable homes with caring foster parents. There will be a maximum of six children in each home with two bedrooms.
- To set up and staff educational and vocational opportunities to develop their talents according to their abilities and needs.
- To enable the village to become self sufficient through the produce from the kitchen garden and workshops.
- To find outlets for the artefacts from the workshops with tourists and in the UK
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- Villages will cater for a maximum of sixty children in ten houses.
- Foster parents will be placed in each of these house, some of whom will be disadvantaged people such as genocide widows. These foster parents will care for the children during the day and help with their instruction and vocational training.
- Each village will have an additional house for visitors (especially Gap students).
- Each village will have a residential manager responsible for building the team of foster parents, carers and teachers.
- Each village will have a schoolroom, a kitchen garden and workshops.
- The construction of each village will take advantage of the latest locally available technologies, including packed mud construction, water harvesting and filtration, organic toilets, mud stoves with chimneys and thermal control.
- Children will be provided with schooling and training to match their needs and this may also be available to orphan children who live locally· Specialists teachers will be recruited where appropriate eg for the deaf and dumb· Medical support, especially physiotherapy will be available in each village
- The first children's village will be built in the parish of Ntendezi in the autumn of 2008
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WELFARE
AIMS
- To help the most needy, especially widows and orphans, the sick and the suffering
- To ensure that help is fairly distributed
- To empower people to help themselves.
- To provide help that lasts.
- To support initiative, enterprise and hard work
- To promote dignity and self worth
- To encourage people to work together in a spirit of love and co-operation
ORGANISATION
- Rwanda Aid supports the welfare programme run by the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Cyangugu in its thirteen parishes
- The Church has established welfare committees in each of its parishes under the chairmanship of the local pastor
- These committees are responsible families in the parish for help and support. The families do not have to be members of the Anglican Church: the sole criterion for selection is need.
- Under the leadership of the Chief Social Worker, each family is visited, and a careful assessment made of their needs.
- The Church Welfare department draws up a list of recommendations for the most appropriate help. These might include any of the following:
- Repair or renew housing
- Give livestock, only usually after training
- Fund schooling or training· Provide Mutuel Assurance.
- Fund health care, usually only emergency
- Offer specific micro-financing opportunities
- The Welfare department encourages the individuals and families we are helping to work cooperatively, for their own benefit and that of the community. This might involve any of the following:
- Forming groups for micro-financing schemes
- Widows helping orphan led families
- Helping each other in times of sickness
- Joining together for recreation
- Joining together for worship and prayer
- Visiting the sick
- Helping to build or repair houses
- Sharing resources, including passing on the first female offspring of any livestock given
- The Church welfare department provides careful follow-up to ensure that the help is well used and sustained.
Rwanda Aid provides the funding for this support covering six parishes each year.
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HEALTH CARE
AIMS
- To create a Health Centre in Kamembe offering a wide range of quality health services including a dispensary, treatment for AIDS and counselling, pre-natal care and a maternity service, immunization, dental care and nutrition and hygiene counseling.
- To provide in-service training for local nurses and doctors.
- To use the Health Centre as a centre for an AIDS "Outreach" project which provides AIDS support and treatment in ten of the more remote villages in the region
ORGANISATION
- Rwanda Aid runs the Health Centre on Mount Cyangugu on behalf of the Anglican Diocese of Cyangugu
- It provides qualified and dedicated support for health care and training: currently a UK doctor has committed for five years
- It is working with the Diocese and local government to build towards Health Centre status, adding services such as dental care, maternity care and immunization to the present services which include a dispensary and day care treatment for tropical illness.
- Rwanda Aid is developing an Outreach programme providing treatment and counselling for AIDS patients in ten of the more remote regions in Cyangugu.
- It provides a vehicle and driver and meets all the costs of this programme
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SCHOOLS
AIMS
- To help the Government to achieve its target of providing free primary schooling for all children by the year 2020
- To improve the quality of teaching and learning by providing in-service training and equipment
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ORGANISATION
- Rwanda Aid helps teachers, especially teachers in the Church schools, to improve their skills and knowledge by providing support in school and regular training courses
- It offers head teachers management training
- It supports schools with equipment and materials
- It equips the most needy children with uniforms and stationery
- Rwanda Aid helps to build and/or extend schools as and when funds are available
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VOCATIONAL TRAINING / FARMING
AIMS
- To provide well-focused practical vocational training
- To run a training farm with an emphasis on the following: sustainable farming, soil improvement, water harvesting and filtration, crop husbandry, animal husbandry, conservation of the environment, appropriate technology and farm management.
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ORGANISATION
Rwanda Aid runs the training and demonstration farm belonging to the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Cyangugu, providing effective training for 72 students each year, many of whom are selected from established youth associations.
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YOUTH & MICRO-FINANCING
AIMS
- To enable young people with talent, energy and enterprise to improve their lot and that of others around them
- To build self-esteem and social awareness.
- To reward hard work and careful, responsible planning
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ORGANISATION
- Rwanda Aid is setting up a micro finance scheme to support young people either individually or in groups, especially drawing on the existing youth associations established by the Anglican Church
- Small loans will be given (between £50 and £250) in response to written applications and business plans
- These loans will be repayable (interest free) over an agreed period of time (maximum two years)
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Rwanda Aid provides detailed follow-up to all projects which it supports
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