Events – Connect Rwanda

Thank you to everyone who participated in RACE FOR RWANDA!

Connect Rwanda’s RACE FOR RWANDA celebrates Umuganura Day, Rwanda’s Thanksgiving Day, by donating 100% of the registration and sponsor fees to our teacher and staff partners in Kigali, Rwanda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsejFFc89cY&feature=youtu.be

To support teachers while they cannot be in schools, Connect Rwanda will fund loans to cover a portion of all teacher salaries until school starts in the fall and our colleagues begin drawing their salaries once again. Between now and the end of August, Connect Rwanda needs your help to raise $15,000 for the teachers of our partner schools!

Thanks to our generous donors, we have reached our goal of $15,000!

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David, a 6th-grade technology teacher at one of our two partner schools in Kigali (Rwanda’s capital) with three children, has described the current situation in Rwanda as dire. Intelligent, hard-working, and idealistic as only a young teacher can be, his quivering voice told us how some teachers–including those Connect Rwanda has trained– have left Kigali for the rural provinces because their funds have run out. There are 97 teachers and administrators in Connect Rwanda’s school network currently, and they are struggling. They have received no paycheck for three months and the opening of school is still months away.

Even without pay, educators are finding ways to connect with students via What’sApp and YouTube. The educational process has been ongoing despite limited equipment and infrastructure. Connect Rwanda’s laptops, tablets, internet connectivity, and teacher training sessions have helped stabilize instruction in this time of great need. But while teachers are trying their best, their basic needs are not being met. Put simply, the infrastructure of support we take for granted in the United States is not yet evident in emerging Rwanda.

In response, Connect Rwanda has dipped into our limited reserves to provide short-term loans to the schools in our network to cover salaries in the short-term. With your support, we can convert these loans to gifts. For just $14,550, we can provide a portion of three months’ worth of pay to 97 teachers and administrators. Through the generosity of our Board, we have already raised $1,500.

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