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Child Sponsorship (Africa) - A Good Idea?

July 5th 2007
Life on the street... For children on the streets of Rwanda, is always a familiar story - abusive parents, lack of money for school fees or a uniform, being forced into manual labour in the home or conflict with step-parents, who often, according to the culture, cannot accept the child of a previous marriage and makes life unbearable for them. Equally common are the children who have be ... read more

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In 1959, three years before independence from Belgium, the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, overthrew the ruling Tutsi king. Over the next several years, thousands of Tutsis were killed, and some 150,000 driven into exile in neighboring countries. T... ... read more

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Neil Jennings

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While working closely with the staff at CCPRWA and other local NGOs in Rwanda it became obvious to me that whilst they’d achieved amazing results, with little or no resources, the survival of their activities hung desperately in the balance due to a lack of basic financial planning and management . They had little or no access to any formal training or professional services. After returning to the UK I found the mismatching of volunteer’s skills was commonplace. There were little or no voluntary opportunities accessible to highly skilled tenured professionals to share their skills, while at ... full info

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