Students Everywhere Can Make a Big Difference (Thank You, Walla Walla!)
It had to be divine intervention. When Scott Thygeson, my father-in-law and retired school teacher, was meeting an old friend for breakfast at the Walla Walla University cafeteria, he came across a group of students talking and praying together. He...
Students Pay it Forward
Students are so thankful for their sponsorship to attend school that they worked and pooled their resources to fund a friend from the camps to attend as well!
A Grateful ADRA Rwanda Worker Thankful for Donor’s Sponsoring of 98 Girls
Jan 24, 2017 A Grateful ADRA Rwanda Worker Thankful for Donor’s Sponsoring of 98 Girls In January I got to help with the selection of the girls with ADRA Rwanda and the UNHCR. Then on January 23, all of our newly-sponsored 98 girls were on a bus...
Oregon Women’s Retreat Sponsors Entire Group of Refugee Girls
When Hans was in Rwanda last September, before he had even come home, he called to tell me about the 98 girls who are walking from their refugee camp to school every single day—an 8 km walk each way. They faced the elements with no protection....
IS SACRIFICE IN THE EQUATION?
What do we think of when we think of luxury? Maybe a fancy car, or an expensive hotel? Just to keep our materialistic minds in check, let's look at luxury from a refugee point of view, shall we? So far, our kids have been in school for...
REFUGEE TEACHER DREAMS OF EDUCATION
While visiting the Gihembe Refugee Camp in Rwanda this March, I talked to a delightful woman who is the head-mistress of the primary school at the camp. Her name is Françoise. Her sister is actually one of our 234 highschool students! Françoise was...
BUILDING FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE
As I walked through the Gihembe refugee camp, the biggest building structure inside the camp was the Hope school. And though it was the biggest building, it was still made out of clay and wood and it still had the United Nations High Commissioner...
VISIT TO GIHEMBE REFUGEE CAMP
Twenty two years ago, approximately 800,000 people were massacred in Rwanda in the span of a hundred days, creating a generation of refugees. A lost generation, who fled utter destruction of buildings, industries, schools, roads, homes and most of...