Education Rwanda Project #44418

Build a preschool for 100 Batwa Children.

by PygmySurvival Alliance

Build a preschool for 100 Batwa Children.

Project Report | Mar 21, 2024
Helping Hands- hands full of help

By Perrilee Pizzini | Project Manager

PSA Helping Hand

Look at your hand: PSA has adopted a quick and easy deffinition of What Pygmy Survival Alliance does. We have five basic categories of what we are working on to help the people in Cyaruzinge, Masoro, and the recently added community of Kinyana which is home to the friends and relatives of the Pygmies of Cyaruzinge and Masoro.

Over the years, the building of the preschool has become a central focus; at present we have 156 students ages 3 to 6 attending classes five days a week where they learn some French, and some English. Porridge is served daily to all the children and it is also delivered to the ill and the elderly who are not able to care for themselves. Food security is job #1, and the porridge program ensures that this job is a complete success.

The happy students sing, they write, and they read. A library of a few hundred books is available for the children to check out in the same way as libraries around the world keep track of their books. The blocks are especially popular with the young boys who build and re-build their towers and walls and then return to next day to build again.

The Preschool building is the heart of the community. This past year, the use of the building has been used even more as a teaching center. Evening and weekend classes have doubled, HDI has come in and taught many Health and Reproductive Education classes for teens and adults, including topics on Sanitation, Woman's health and Protection from Sexually transmitted infections.

Maintainance of the building has taken precidence: patching the floor, fixing the gutters outside and adding a water tank to collect rainwater from the roof. Still, more repairs are needed: the window sills need fixing, and walls need painting. Thank you for your continued support for this uplifting educational facility that serves children, youth and adults.

Irerero Boys Play with Blocks

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Dec 3, 2023
HDI continues to add support at Cyaruzinge village 2023

By Perrilee Pizzini | Project Manager

Nov 7, 2023
November 2023 PSA Update

By Perrilee Pizzini | Program Manager

Dear Pygmy Survival Alliance supporters,

Building Meeting Rooms. Great progress has been made. The windows and doors are installed. The water pipes have been moved to outside where the excess water runs away from the building protecting the foundation. The classroom is full of students five days a week. The building still needs painting on the inside, and furnishings added. The room where the water pipes were removed, the villagers are uising the room by renting it for a variety of meetings. This room needs adult chairs and electricity added so meetings can be held later in the evenings. A complete success.

The Cultural Center /Expanded Preschool is going through the nex phase of design. We are looking into the Zoneing rules and government Cultural rules and the preschool requirements. So much to decide before breaking ground.

The kithen has been bilt and the feeding program is being expanded again. Started out a program for the children attending the preschool program. Now it is the children 3 months old through finishing preschool. Plus all children who attend Saturday sports and all the children who show up are fed a cup of porridge and a hard boild egg. Twice a week hard boiled eggs are added to the nuitrician and a cup of milk, on some days. The women who are cooking the porridge have added taking cups of porridge to villagers who are too ill to leave the house. Expanding taking care of each other, when needed.

Vocational Education is expanding. The students who complete their training are taking on teaching the young people who are wanting to learn sewing and beautician work. Keeping the payments in the community. The program is only a few months along. It seems to be working out well.

Soccer is still very popular with the community, and the children are still playing as often as possible. Saturdays are very competitive with the adults and children. Neighboring soccer teams come to join the activity and the compitition is high. Uniforms, balls and porridge remain exciting and popular.

The Cultural Center /Expanded Preschool is going through the nex phase of design. We are looking into the Zoneing rules and government Cultural rules and the preschool requirements. So much to decide before breaking ground.

Colaborating with the community on projects is quite a shift for all of us, the resut is the community of Pygmies are taking on more and more of the general responsibilitys. They have elected members of the commnity to be the leaders. They are stepipng up and fullfilling the duties of people incharge.

LINKS

The high end venue where the Amakondera troop wants to preform https://youtu.be/mEkVBR4fmRc

Cyaruzinge people showing skills to visitors 1 of 2 https://youtu.be/KgNXeCN-OCE

Visitors to Cyaruzinge village shop and watch skills demonstrations https://youtu.be/1gSXLsEemno

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