Update on Josepha and the Kinamba Community Project
We were delighted to receive an update this week from Meg Fletcher at the Kinamba Community Project with news on latest happenings at the project in the Kigali region of Rwanda.
As mentioned in our article from this time last year, ACORN have been contributing to the education of Josepha Nyinawumuntu through the Project and our sponsorship has been covering teacher’s salaries, her school uniform, educational materials and food, ensuring that she gets at least one good meal per day whilst she is at school.
Like all of us, there has been much disrtuption over the last 18-months as a result of the Covid pandemic but the staff and students have been adapting to the best of their abilities.
In her latest newsletter, Meg looks back on the progress of a group who had completed their Y6 Primary education with most of them going-on to boarding school in different parts of the country. That was seven years ago and the newsletter shows most of these children today as they await the results of the National Examinations which they took in July.
The physical fabric of the school also received some much-needed maintenance during the holidays, with volunteers – some of which had been students there themselves – busy getting the school ready for the academic year ahead.
Previously, ACORN supported Zambian student Izzac Nkhata for four years of study at university.
ACORN will continue to support Josepha and the work of Meg and the Kinamba Community Project, and wish them all the very best for a safe and enjoyable year ahead.
About the Kinamba Community Project
The Kinamba Community Project was founded by Meg Fletcher, a retired Primary Headteacher who has worked in Kigali since 2006 when she first went there as a volunteer with the VSO organisation.
This very special project provides educational opportunities and resources for the people of the Kamutwa communities in the Kinamba area of Kigali, Rwanda.
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 had a devastating effect on the lives and futures of a large proportion of the community, and the Kinamba Community Project offers hope to widows, orphaned children and vulnerable people of the region.
The Project comprises nursery education, support for students through primary and into secondary education with a number of educational opportunities for the youth and adults in the community also made available.
The adult project provides skills training and support for the people to find income-generating activities to enable them to feed their children, live with greater dignity and take some control over their own lives.
Over time they have offered training and advice on HIV/Aids, basic literacy and numeracy, classes for tailoring, to learn to make traditional baskets and jewellery for sale. They also provide basic literacy and numeracy classes in collaboration with the Ministry of Education.
You can find out more by visiting www.kinambaproject.org.uk/