This new project was strongly supported by Don Claudio Curcetti, who has been visiting the Come Noi projects in Rwanda for three years. For some years, in Rwanda, the Church has been taking responsibility for the reception, scholastic and work training of the many single mothers who, due to poverty, ignorance and culture, are abandoned by their families and removed from school. In the parish of Kinihira, where our friend Don Patrice is parish priest, a sewing workshop has been active for three years to help single mothers learn a trade. Furthermore, houses are built every year to accommodate them …
Category: Rwanda active projects
Rwanda active projects
Byumba shoemaking school
The Byumba Diocesan Center to help young people learn a job has become a vocational school recognized at government level. To integrate the three courses already operating for some years (hairdressing, cutting and sewing and basket making), we were asked to contribute to the creation of an annual shoemaking course. Come Noi has decided to finance the laboratory for leather processing and the repair of footwear, handbags and belts, with the aim of allowing students to quickly achieve managerial and financial autonomy. The project involves 25 young people (8 street children, 8 single mothers and 9 orphans) for a training …
RWANDA School canteen at Gituza
The project was started in 2017, when we accepted the request of the parish priest of Gituza to contribute to the creation of a school canteen for 120 nursery and primary school pupils. Malnourished children, orphans or from poor families. It provides for a gradual involvement of the population, in order to bring the canteen to self-sufficiency, through the cultivation of vegetables, and the breeding of animals by the work of the local people. In the first year of support, we made available the amount needed to pay the salary of two cooks and to buy the food for the …
