The phenomenon of street children is a world problem and over tens of millions of street children are found across the world. Rwanda considers street children as a category of children in need of special protection. It also considers street children as one of the categories of vulnerable children, with…
GNPDR, our CRED Partner in Rwanda, have recently been able to restart their outreach programme to children living on the streets of Kigali. The outreach programme had been forced to stop during the pandemic, and then had struggled to get restarted, following the sad death of Theoneste, who had been…
Pictures are much better than words on this one! Comfort Primary School is based in Kigali, Rwanda, and was set up to provide access to education for children living on the streets. More recently it has transitioned to a mainstream school and the children who attend come from double parent…
When Rwanda came out of lockdown, certain conditions were imposed on the schools before they were able to reopen. One of those conditions was access to handwashing facilities for all the children. Another was having enough desks that children can sit just two to a desk, and not three or…
From the youngest to the oldest, all students were delighted to be able to return to Comfort Primary School recently after the easing of lockdown restrictions in Rwanda. The school had to comply with government guidelines regarding hand washing facilities before it was allowed to open, but with the new…
