This has beeen an amazing trip. We are currently in Gisenyi which is on the border of the Congo and Rwanda. We are on the Rwandan side..of course!!!!!!
Today we travelled up from Rwamagana back to Kigali and out to a catch up school. This is a place where they take street kids and those children who dropped out of primary school and fast track them through primary school to enable them to sit their National exams for primary school. The amazing thing is the very high rate of children that pass the exams and some of these children are in the top of the country.
The young man who runs the centre, Alexis, is an amazing guy and his story is incredible. He virtually took it on himself to go out and find children to start teaching, children from the streets and dumps. Riverview church sponsors about 150 children in this Catch Up school.
We went back to the Centre for Champions yesterday for singing and dancing and saying goodbye to the children. They gave us a lovely woven dish as a gift.
In the morning Laz and I went back to the womens business group and gave a talk on budgeting to help them be more profitable. They were so interested. They gave an example of one of their business enterprises which we now suspect is making a sowgum alcohol. They are making about 20% profit on that business!!!
Hopefully more pics tomorrow.
We are having a couple of days off now, by the lake, going to the markets and eating too much!
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