Support a good work in Rwanda
My sister has been involved for the last couple of years with a really neat ministry called "NuVision Ministries", based out of Rwanda. They've just started a blog, so I'm giving them a shameless plug. (hey, 50,000 people a day, on average, read the posts on "The Blogging Tories", so I figured it's a good means of spreading the word...)
It was started by Evelyn and Martin Razanga (no clue if I spelled the last name right), two natives of Rwanda. They were in Canada attending school when the genocide occured in the 1990's, and after everything settled down, returned to determine what had come of their families. (If I remember correctly, they had all survived) As Martin had graduated school as an optician, he and his wife set about to do their part in helping to rebuild the nation.
Over time, it developed into NuVision Ministries. They have obtained land, and through donations from Canada and the US, have been able to build a school, and set up regular and stable funding for support for the children attending.
My sister assisted them on a building team in 2004, and is joining another team this summer. Another friend of mine, Jordan, has just left for Rwanda to help co-ordinate all the summer teams, and my former employer, Dr. Ronald Phillips, will be going over for several weeks to provide his optometric services through the ministry, as they are in extremely short supply over there. (people line up for hours, sometimes for a day or two, for Martin to examine them... and he's only an optician!)
So, if you're looking for something good to put your support behind, here's one more way that you might want to consider.
Check out their blog... Nu-Vision August Work Team Blog.
It was started by Evelyn and Martin Razanga (no clue if I spelled the last name right), two natives of Rwanda. They were in Canada attending school when the genocide occured in the 1990's, and after everything settled down, returned to determine what had come of their families. (If I remember correctly, they had all survived) As Martin had graduated school as an optician, he and his wife set about to do their part in helping to rebuild the nation.
Over time, it developed into NuVision Ministries. They have obtained land, and through donations from Canada and the US, have been able to build a school, and set up regular and stable funding for support for the children attending.
My sister assisted them on a building team in 2004, and is joining another team this summer. Another friend of mine, Jordan, has just left for Rwanda to help co-ordinate all the summer teams, and my former employer, Dr. Ronald Phillips, will be going over for several weeks to provide his optometric services through the ministry, as they are in extremely short supply over there. (people line up for hours, sometimes for a day or two, for Martin to examine them... and he's only an optician!)
So, if you're looking for something good to put your support behind, here's one more way that you might want to consider.
Check out their blog... Nu-Vision August Work Team Blog.
posted by Christian Conservative @ 8:17 p.m.
1 Comments:
At Wed Jul 05, 11:07:00 p.m. EDT,
Anonymous said…
Over decades the envolvement by western nations in the affairs of africa have been for naught and have resulted in blacks attacking those who have brought aid and expertise to africa.When whites established industries and agriculture bringing law and order and prosperity and they were in short order expelled or murdered ( belgian congo, rhodesia ,south africa,kenya,etc.)because blacks thought they could keep all the benefits that whites brought them without detriment to themselves.
Western aid has only increased the rate of fornication to produce more hungry mouths who do not contribute to their own welbeing.
I suggest to leave africa to its own devices.
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