Tutoring and movies at IWACU

It is Good Friday morning and the children would not miss a day at IWACU for tutoring.

During the school holidays the children enjoy coming to IWACU to read books from Susanna Grannis Library and get tutored in all subjects. This holiday we also had the new projector that was purchased with money raised from our long time friend of CHABHA Karen Johnson and her friends in Colorado. The children have been enjoyed watching the wonderful dvds from Suzanne Abruzzo on the new projector.









The AMAHORO Association is working with a film maker from the UK on a documentary about AMAHORO and last week using the new projector had a preview. I look forward to sharing this wonderful documentary with all of you soon.

AJESOV Life Skills Workshops and Home Visits.

This trimester break the Ajesov Association conducted a one day Life Skills Workshop for the beneficiaries. The topics taught and discussed by the leaders and consultants were on education and development, HIV prevention and Child Rights. The association anticipated 150 children for the all day program that included a lunch. That morning we had heavy rains that delayed the start of the workshop and prevented only a few from coming. The walk for some children can be two hours. The leaders also collected the report cards of the children to document this last periods results.

I was able to make two trips to Nyamata for home visits with Ajesov this month. The focus of the home visits was to access the kitchen garden project Ajesov implemented last year. The leaders worked with the heads of the households to develop sustainable food projects for the households and potential income generating. The challenge in Nyamata or the Bugasera District is the weather, it can be very hot and dry depending where you are. The poor soil and lack of water forces many homes to plant cassava that does well with these. However cassava has limited nutritional value and the demand to supply is very low.

CHABHA Rwanda is looking at creating partnerships to train households in developing the cultivating projects in all the associations.