GrassRoots Rwanda
working with the
Episcopal Church of Rwanda in Shyogwe Diocese 

Welcome to GrassRoots Rwanda. You will find on this website, details about our current and past projects, who we are and how we work. Please also follow our Facebook page for updates on our current projects.

Life in Rwanda is rapidly changing yet, compared with the comfortable West, it is still desperately hard especially in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. We aim to give a hand up, not a hand out: although giving aid is at times needed, we seek to help fund life-transforming projects like health clinics and schools. We work through the Anglican Church in Rwanda also helping with churches (repairs and teaching) and the Bible and Development School.

We look to provide holistic support by:
1. giving relief of financial hardship due to poverty, sickness, disability or old age
2. supporting education and medical facilities
3. supporting the spiritual needs by helping the Anglican church as it trains its pastors and catechists, provides buildings and programmes to help the poorest.

We value your support, so for more information, or help us fundraise, please email info@grassrootsrwanda.com.

Thank you
 
GrassRoot Rwanda Trustees

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GrassRoots Rwanda News

by Kelly Owen 9 November 2024
Last month, Pete Muir, Trustee at GrassRoots Rwanda, shared two new areas of fundraising focus in the Shyogwe Diocese in his home church, St Michael and All Angels, Bishop's Cleeve, Cheltenham UK. St Micheal's Church is a Mission Partner of the charity. Watch Pete's short talk above or click here >> Grassroots Rwanda update talk on 27th Oct 2024 - YouTube Pete also shares an update below, with links to project fundraising pages. Building work SOS It was a good and interesting visit on my recent trip to the Diocese although I’m sure these visits are getting more arduous - perhaps I’m just getting older! As with many of the visits, it is a bittersweet experience. You see lots of beautiful vistas and talk to lots of beautiful people. You go to church services that last for hours. But the flip side of course is always there. The grinding poverty; the very few opportunities for people to better themselves and some are living in unacceptably poor accommodation. We visited one archdeacon who was living in a house built by the original missionaries in the 1920s, it is structurally good but needs a complete makeover estimated at around £6,000. I’ve opened a JustGiving page to collect £2,500 to cover just the bathroom (which interestingly has a bath in it - obviously, with such a shortage of water this needs to be converted to a shower) and the kitchen, which has one old wood-burning stove and no means to prepare food except on the ground. The room was constantly full of smoke. This is the link for donations to this work, any donation most gratefully received and all used towards this project: justgiving.com/page/peter-muir-1729605397804 Training for young women We also met a group of girls who had been subjected to sexual violence. We have previously given them training and a sewing machine so they can make their own clothes, and also make clothes to sell, giving them independence from their abusers. But the Diocese is concerned that without a formal qualification from a training centre they may not be able to sell their clothes to the public. It is a three-month residential course which would cost £250 for each of the girls, so I’ve set up a second JustGiving page for these girls where I hope to raise £2,500 to give all 10 of them a qualification to ensure that they can continue to sell goods and thereby keep themselves safe. This is the link for donations to this work, any donation most gratefully received and all used towards this project: justgiving.com/page/peter-muir-1729846773707 Thank you for your continued support and prayers.
by GrassRoots Rwanda 1 August 2021
Update on the impact of COVID-19 in Shyogwe Diocese
by Kelly Owen 22 March 2019
New maternity unit open for mothers in Shaki, Rwanda
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Donations of any amount are always welcome to support our work in Rwanda. 
Every pound donated goes to helping the people of Shyogwe Diocese. 
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