Early November, Helen and Simon visited GNPDR in Rwanda and spent some time at their programmes. Here are some reflections of Helen following the visit. Today we spent the morning with a group of about 25 young people some of whom are living on the streets of Kigali, and some…
written by Jeremiah, one of the GNPDR Street Children programme staff. On December 22nd, 2022 at the GNPDR office in Kigali we hosted a Christmas event for 31 street children who were in our programme with the aim of sharing the love of Christ with them by telling them the…
GNPDR, our CRED partner in Rwanda, have been involved in prison ministry in their country almost since the inception of the organisation. As well as providing a service of year round chaplaincy support, they also look out for opportunities to bless the prisoners and prison staff further, whether through running…
An update from Pius, director of GNPDR: Hello, I hope this finds you doing well. I just want to give you some updates about the GNPDR street kids programme. I am thrilled to report that we have been able to reach out to 53 children over the last 3 months. 35…
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…
