News From A Partnership In Caring

A Partnership in Caring Volunteers Purchase Crafts from Tubahumurize Association in Kigali, Rwanda

Today, A Partnership in Caring volunteers visited the Tubahumurize Association in Kigali, Rwanda to purchase crafts. These crafts will be featured at A Partnership in Caring’s table at the Winter Market and Farmers Market soon. The association supports and empowers female victims of violence and marginalization in Rwanda. One of its programs is a sewing school where students in sewing, embroidery and quilting and create a community of women engaged in a therapeutic environment. Partnership volunteer Maria van Vonderen says Association was quite excited to make such a big sale. To learn more about the Tubahumurize Association go to their web site at http://rwandanwomencan.org/

 

A Partnership in Caring’s Maria van Vonderen withJeanne Mwiliriza, the Executive Director of Tubahumurize Association

Medicine Cabinet at ADAR Orphanage Restocked

The medicine cabinet at ADAR is now restocked thanks to A Partnership In Caring Society.
Seen here are Carolyn Rideout and Maria van Vonderen from APICS and Josepha, the director of ADAR .
To donate to A Partnership In Caring please go to their website at www.apartnershipincaring.ca
A Partnership in Caring Society supports ADAR orphanage by providing much needed medications, food and clothing.

A Partnership in Caring Society Delivers Days for Girls Kits for Mbuga Health Centre

Maria van Vonderen, a volunteer with a Partnership In Caring Society explains the use of the Days For Girls Kits to Sister Marie Drocelle from the Mbuga Health Center in Rwanda.
Sister Drocelle is a Benebikira Sister and a Registered Nurse who counsels young women between the ages of 15 and 20 on reproductive health matters.
The kits include reusable flannel pads, a protective liner, facecloth and soap, 2 pair of underwear and a cycle calendar. These kits are made by volunteers for Days for Girls.
For more information about the kits please go to www.DaysforGirls.org
To make a donation to A Partnership In Caring Society please go to their website at www.apartnershipincaring.ca

 

Maria van Vonderen explains the Days for Girls kits to Sister Drocelle

Young Man Grateful for Support from A Partnership in Caring

Ramadhan is a man we have known and supported for the past 8 years. He is 20 years old now. We first met him when he was 12 years old, he was on the streets, not in school. Today he works as a labourer.
He is a kind and gentle young man who is very grateful for the support he receives from A Partnership in Caring Society.

To donate to support our continuing work in Rwanda, visit our website at www.apartnershipincaring.ca

 

Ramadhan with A Partnership in Caring’s Maria van Vonderen

A Partnership in Caring’s Maria van Vonderen and Carolyn Rideout with Ramadhan

 

Ramadhan at age 12

Busy Weeks Lie Ahead for Volunteers in Rwanda

We received an email from A Partnership in Caring Society Chair Maria van Vonderen in Butare. She and Carolyn Rideout are settling in to Rwanda and making plans for the next few weeks. One of their stops next week will be the ADAR orphanage (Association for the Development of Blind people and others handicapped in Rwanda). It is an orphanage that provides a stable home for thirty physically and mentally handicapped children in Butare, Rwanda; supported financially by A Partnership in Caring Society. There are also plans to visit Cathy Emerson, a Canadian who lives in Northern Rwanda who is with PREFER (Poverty Reduction, Education and Family Empowerment in Rwanda). PREFER offers a number of programs including a street children’s program. And they will spend time with the Benebikira Sisters, who operate a number of projects including schools and health centres, projects A Partnership in Caring Society have supported.

 

 

A Partnership in Caring Volunteers Leave for Rwanda

The journey begins. A Partnership in Caring volunteers Maria van Vonderen (left) and Carolyn Rideout (right) left Halifax Stanfield International Airport Monday evening for Kigali, Rwanda. They arrive in Rwanda Wednesday. They will be in Rwanda for three weeks. We will have regular updates on our Facebook Page and our web site at www.apartnershipincaring.ca. If you would like to support our work in Rwanda, you can make a donation at our web site.