Today marks exactly my halfway point. It is exactly halfway from the day I left home and went to Switzerland to the day I will return home. The time is passing very fast and I am continuing to love it, as I learn so much and am challenged a lot as well.
This past week was my first week of my official placement here in Rwanda. I will spend the next 4 months working mainly in a widow’s ministry. The woman and the children I am working with are incredible. All have heartbreaking stories about all the things they have had to overcome in life. As the weeks continue I will share some of their stories with you. The person I am working with in this ministry is an incredible girl who is my age and has been running this ministry by herself for around 6 years now. She interacts with over 700 widows. The work I will be involved in includes group meetings of the widows as well as one-on-one visits. We will be continuing to pair five women together, giving them an opportunity to plan a small business together, apply for a loan from the ministry and then hopefully make the business work. There is also an opportunity to give some of these widows goats, which helps generate an income for them. The next big task we as a ministry have is that we will be compiling the woman’s individual profiles including pictures of themselves and their children in an effort to be able to raise awareness of their issues and hopefully raise support for these woman and especially their children since many of them are not in school because their mothers/caregivers can not afford the school fees. I will also be working one afternoon with a local prostitution ministry.
My heart has been softened for these woman and their children since the first moment I met them. I am looking forward to spending the next four months with them very much. Thank you for your continued love, support and prayers for my time here in Rwanda.
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