Education
It is very difficult for a person to reach their potential without the benefit of an education. Access to education is one of the vital ingredients of the fight against poverty. An education allows a person to train and enter employment and to escape a subsistence lifestyle. The education itself enhances and enriches the person’s life. Comfort Rwanda is involved in supporting primary, secondary and university education for orphans and other poor and vulnerable children in Rwanda. Comfort Rwanda has provided over £3000 to Solace for education of orphans for the 2006 school term.
We are working with both our parters, The Living Church and Solace Ministries, to fund educational needs. Costs vary – theoretically primary and early secondary education is government funded, but spaces on those schools are limited and many children have to pay for private schools run by churches etc. In addition the cost of uniforms, materials and transport to the schools, a mattress for secondary school pupils (most secondary schools are boarding) as well as a parent-teachers association type of bonus to help teachers stay at the school and not migrate to better paid jobs at private schools can add up to around £40 - £80 per year for primary and around £120 for secondary schooling. Not very much, but beyond a widow earning 30 pence a day. University fees are around £350 with living expenses on top of that requiring a total of around £950 a year to fund a university student. If you would like to help please fill in a regular standing order of £6 for primary, £10 for secondary, £30 for university fees or £80 for complete university support.
It is very difficult for a person to reach their potential without the benefit of an education. Access to education is one of the vital ingredients of the fight against poverty. An education allows a person to train and enter employment and to escape a subsistence lifestyle. The education itself enhances and enriches the person’s life. Comfort Rwanda is involved in supporting primary, secondary and university education for orphans and other poor and vulnerable children in Rwanda. Comfort Rwanda has provided over £3000 to Solace for education of orphans for the 2006 school term.
We are working with both our parters, The Living Church and Solace Ministries, to fund educational needs. Costs vary – theoretically primary and early secondary education is government funded, but spaces on those schools are limited and many children have to pay for private schools run by churches etc. In addition the cost of uniforms, materials and transport to the schools, a mattress for secondary school pupils (most secondary schools are boarding) as well as a parent-teachers association type of bonus to help teachers stay at the school and not migrate to better paid jobs at private schools can add up to around £40 - £80 per year for primary and around £120 for secondary schooling. Not very much, but beyond a widow earning 30 pence a day. University fees are around £350 with living expenses on top of that requiring a total of around £950 a year to fund a university student. If you would like to help please fill in a regular standing order of £6 for primary, £10 for secondary, £30 for university fees or £80 for complete university support.
Many
Rwandan children are too poor to afford the £20
a term needed for school.
Ben Kayumba of Solace has a passion to see the youth of Rwanda healed and living righteously. He organises youth camps where hundreds of children are counselled and helped to overcome their trauma and learn to follow Christ in peace and joy.
A report by Solace remarks “The objectives of the camps are mainly trauma healing, re-establishing moral standards using the word of God, fighting against loneliness and despair, parenting and creating a network amongst youth without a family so that they may care for one another. Tremendous results have been seen and other orphans who abandoned school have resumed their education and are performing excellently.”
Comfort Rwanda has been supporting Children’s care camps since 2001.
Participants at one of the youth care and trauma healing camps.
