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Building a School for the Children of Kavumu (Rwanda)

How we started

In December 2011, Noreen Barbe, Adolphine Mukamanzi and Marie Ntaganda traveled to Rwanda. During their stay, they visited the village of Kavumu, where children and parents came to welcome them. The parents mentioned that their children traveled two hours to get to the closest school every day, which was particularly hard for the younger children. At the end of the day, the children came back exhausted, with no food or drink left in their lunch boxes. Many of them get discouraged because they still have to complete their household chores and domestic duties upon their return.
 

After their trip, the ladies put a team together called Inzira y’Urumuri - Le chemin de la lumière to start raising money to build a school for these children. To date they have raised enough money to build 9 classrooms for students from kindergarden to 6th grade. Today, over 250 students attend the school.  

OUR mission

To continue to reduce poverty and promote education and health for the less fortunate of communities in Canada and the world.  

OUR VISION

To improve quality of life and give the less fortunate opportunities by teaching them skills to become autonomous, responsible and eventually agents of change within their communities and their countries.  

milestones

2012

Inzira y'Urumuri/Le chemin de la lumière project creation


2013

Acquisition of land from the Diocese de Kabgayi in Rwanda to build the school


October 2013

Start of fundraising activities


2016

Contract signing for construction and building of three kindergarten classes, one administrative office and six lavatories


January 2017

Inauguration of the school. Over 120 are enrolled and attend kindergarten.


June 2019 

IU/CL registered as a charity with Canada Revenue Agency 


February 2020

Memorandum of Understanding (agreement) with Rwanda Ministry of Education


October 2021

Inauguration of the classrooms for grades 1 to 3.


June 2023

The first cohort of kindergarten students graduated from grade 6.


December 2023

Construction of classrooms for grade 4 to 6, a kitchen and lavatories by our partner, the District of Ruhango.


Other economic and social benefits related to school construction project in Kavumu : 

* Road construction

* Provision of drinking water

* Provision of electricity 

NEXT Steps

Construction of 3 classrooms for grades 7 to 9

contact us

E-mail:
info@chemindelalumiere.ca



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In order to reach our goal to build the remaining classes from grades 7 to 9, we are seeking your financial help!

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