A COVID-19 EMERGENCY: VALERIE’S STORY
Therese is the little girl you can see here in the green skirt, with her family outside their home in Rwanda. Her mum, Valerie is a courageous woman who has overcome many obstacles to care for her children alone. Support from the Community Hub we helped to establish near their home in Kigali, meant Valerie was […]
CHILDREN CONFINED TO ORPHANAGES BECAUSE OF DISABILITY MUST NOT BE FORGOTTEN IN A POST-COVID WORLD
On International Day of Persons With Disabilities 2020, the UN is calling on governments to build an inclusive and accessible world for all as we emerge from the pandemic. It’s vital that children, confined to orphanages because they are living with disabilities, are not forgotten. By supporting families, we can reunite these children with the people […]
SUPPORT FROM PLAYERS OF PEOPLE’S POSTCODE LOTTERY KEEPS CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN RWANDA SAFE
Image: Reunited with his family, Carrol now has the love and protection he needs to stay safe and thrive. By supporting our work in Rwanda, players of People’s Postcode Lottery are keeping children with disabilities at home with loving families, and safe from orphanages, during the Coronavirus pandemic. We are grateful to the Postcode Equality […]
CARROL’S STORY
By giving his parents the support they needed to meet his additional needs, our team in Rwanda brought Carrol home from the orphanage and back to the people who love him. Soon after Carrol was born, his parents began to worry that he wasn’t developing as he should. His mum, Mubyeyi and his dad, Kubana, knew something was wrong because Carrol has […]
TURNING THE TIDE FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
Richard Munyaneza, Advocacy, Communication and Safeguarding Coordinator at Hope and Homes for Children Rwanda explains how a community hub is helping children with disabilities to thrive This vibrant community hub (pictured above), run by the inspirational Médiatrice Mukasharangabo and her daughter, Clementine, used to be an orphanage for children with disabilities. But in 2018, our […]
MEET RUGWIRO*: THE FOSTER FATHER GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND TO PROTECT CHILDREN
We were only able to fully close an orphanage in the Gatsibo district due to the willingness of local community members to foster the children and young adults who we couldn’t reunite with their biological families. One of these couples is Rugwiro* and his wife Masaro*, who agreed to foster a 24-year-old young man called Ndoli*. Ndoli has […]
WORLD REFUGEE DAY AND WEEK: CELEBRATING HOPE AWAY FROM HOME
Ukrainian refugees arriving at the Romanian border in May 2022. Photo credits: Ioana Moldovan / Hope and Homes for Children 20 June is World Refugee Day, a day of solidarity for displaced people around the world. Along with an inspiring story of a teenage refugee from Ukraine, we’re sharing some need-to-know facts on the refugee […]