Providing Education to 450 Children in Ruhagarika

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR GIFT!

Let us together enjoy Christmas and New Year Seasons’ Holiday.

In Burundi, Christmas and New Year days,  people expect  for 4  things  to happen in their families and community: (1) Celebrate Jesus’ birth day (2) Worship and Thanks Giving to God, (3) Eat good food and drink,  (4) and parents buy  new clothing  to their children  and husbands to their wives.

These two celebrations are going to be celebrated when  we were not able to pay our teachers’ salaries for Octobre, November and December 2015. You can imagine how they will be feeling.

I am very grateful to our donors and friends, and friends of friends who are making their donations to help JRMD continue to provide education to the underprivileged children, schooling at Iwacu Kazoza School. If one person was to try do this work alone, it would be impossible. This is  only possible through partnership and joining hands together to build the society and the world we want that each one of us is longing to see and live in. Because of your donations, the school  is now providing education to 497 underprivileged students  during this school year 2015-2016.

Our current needs:

To pay teachers’ salaries for October, November and December 2015, we need $8,340.

To provide student materials and uniforms to 112 children from very  poor families who are now schooling in our school (at Iwacu Kazoza School), we need $4,500.

Digging a well and building a water tank for the orphanage and Iwacu Kazoza School will cost  us $20,000.

Your Christmas and New Year donation will enable us to provide clean water to the orphanage and 497 students schooling at Iwacu Kazoz School and surrounding community of the above mentioned school; pay teachers’ salaries and purchase student materials including school uniforms. You can now make your Christmas and New Year Gift through the following link: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/providing-education-to-450-youths-in-ruhagarika/

Our total school budget is $65,646 for this school year 2015-2016. This budget will enable us to pay teacher’s salaries, buy student and teacher’s books, school supplies and purchase new benches.

I know there are a lot of other ways you could have spent this money, but you believe in our cause, so you chose to invest it in our project. Because of this investment, I want you to feel like part of our team. We're in this together. I want our success to be your success. We give thanks to our donors and GlobalGiving for making possible the education of these children, who could not have access to education without your financial help and prayers.

Prosper Ndabishuriye

General Coordinator and Founder

HARD WORKING STUDENTS

The sixth grade students of Iwacu Kazoza School performed very well in National Exams. Theirscores ranged from 91% to 64.5%, these were among the highest scores nationally. We are very grateful to our donors and friends, and friends of friends who helped us make this happen through their donations.

Because of you,  this year was a great success for the school and our students. In total, 495 primary and secondary students enrolled for the school year 2014-2015 and 466 advanced. 54 Sixth and tenth grade students sat for national exam.

The students of Iwacu Kazoza Schoolare hard working students, just like this man who is transporting bananas on his bicycle, as you can see from the picture. Let us together continue to help them become self-sufficient one day so that they can help themselves, help their community and country. They are leaders, parents and business people of tomorrow.

Our total school budget is: $65,646. This budget will enable us to pay teacher’s salaries, buy student and teacher’s books, school supplies and purchase new benches. In addition, we still need $19,850 to roof three additional classrooms. The building to be roofed is at the stage of roofing, as you can see from the picture.

As you know, more than 78% of students at Iwacu Kazoza School come from households that cannot afford the $3 per term tuition. Many of these students are orphans who have been taken in by another family.  To help us continue to provide education to our orphaned and underprivileged students, your donation will help immensely and enable us to provide education to them during the school year 2015-2016.

From July 2013 – September 2015, $77,869 have been donated through GlobalGiving, by 199 donors and 7 of 199 donors are making their donations on monthly bases, through GlobalGiving.

I know there are a lot of other ways you could have spent this money, but you believe in our cause, so you chose to invest it in our project. Because of this investment, I want you to feel like part of our team. We're in this together. I want our success to be your success.

We give thanks to our donors and GlobalGiving for making possible the education of these children, who could not have access to education without your financial help and prayers.

Prosper Ndabishuriye

General Coordinator and Founder