About Us
Hannah Ministry Tumurere Project is an initiative project that was established in 2005 by Madam MUJAWIYERA Josephine the wife to the then Bishop of EAR Diocese of Byumba and Madam UWAMARIYA Victoire the wife to the then Reverend who was the Diocesan secretary, Emmanuel Ngendahayo..
Hannah Ministry, an autonomous organisation within the Anglican diocese of Byumba in Northern Rwanda, wishes to encourage individuals, churches, business groups, grant-making trusts and other specialty organisations to commit to three year sponsorships of child-headed orphan families. The sponsorship will be administered by the UK charity, Friends of Byumba Trust (UK Charity Registration Number xxxxx), set up to encourage such humanitarian initiatives within the Byumba area.
This initiative was a response towards the most vulnerable children and orphans who were born as a result of defilement onto their parents during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and the civil wars where their parents could not identify the fathers of their children and worst of all, they had also contradicted them with HIV/AIDS which made the innocent born children to live with such incurable diseases that made them to live with grief and sorrow.
Madam Josephine as well as Madam Victoire with their kindness thought of identifying these young and innocent children and whenever they prepared meals at their respective homes, they would atleast keep in mind the children they met and would include them on their lunches, would pack the food and take it to respective families which were then 12 but now have grown to 74 families.
In the September 2010, Rt Rev Onesphore RWAJE who was the husband of Madam Josephine was elected the Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Rwanda and this was obvious for them to migrate to Kigali and the Rev NGENDAHAYO Emmanuel the husband to Madam Victoire was elected the Bishop of EAR Diocese of Byumba though this created a bigger task for Madam Vicky for she had been left alone to take care of the project children.
Background
Is an association of Christians which started its activities
since 2005 by Late Mme Uwamariya Victoire With the following
activities:
To provide the
psychological, economical and spiritual care to orphans and
vulnerable children and youth based on Christian faith.
To contribute to the
education of orphans and vulnerable
To prevent the violence and
discrimination of orphans and vulnerable children.
To contribute to the
reduction and abolition of sickness of contaminated children
with HIV and AIDS infection
.
About the progress we made
Those are the following key points we made:
We visited and contributed
to make a Christian hope and faith to the orphans and
vulnerable children.
We constructed 2 equipped
houses for 2 families of orphans.
We trained 42 single mothers
and 2 boys about vocation skills.
Every year from 2005 we feed
37(breakfast and lunch) orphans and vulnerable children.
Every year from 2005 we give
health insurance to 100 orphans and vulnerable children.
We gave the poligge flour to
the Vulnerable children born from contaminated parents and we
visited them in their families.
Challenges
Because of lack of enough fund, after The passing on of late Mme UWAMARIYA VICTOIRE , We are not yet getting the others person who can take her duties. Therefore there are some activities which is not working or performing as well.
Because of the genocide against Tutsi of 1994 in Rwanda, many children were left alone and destitute. Later, it was discovered that majority of those orphans were victims of HIV/AIDS. They don’t have homes and yet some being head of families at 10-12 years old, no food, no health insurance, no schoolings, none to listen and pay attention to them, etc…
HANNAH MINISTRY TUMURERE, since its creation, Hannah Ministry aims to respond to the various needs of orphans, vulnerable children and youth (OVCY) with a multifaceted approach, which aims to meet the basic needs and prepare them to face the future.
This including health where we care and help the children living with HIV/AIDS; Education and psychosocial support where we focus on holistic capacity building. In this area Hannah Ministry has trained over one hundred children in different fields in order they can get skills which can help them to be active and self-supporting.
The following subjects have been areas of the trainings: sewing Machine in different design, (special for baby materiel full package ), Paper bags, Post cards, Baskets, Earrings, and other different handcrafts. Most of the children trained are now capable to find solution to their needs; either through group collaboration or by individual. They have initiated their own income generating activities.
she kept on contacting her friends from everywhere in a call to support the idea and initiatives she had and she would knock door by door, move from place to place in her friends and wherever she would travel to, in her mind were the hungry children she could have left behind which made the project more sustainable until May 2015 when she passed away and called to be with the Lord..
She therefore had to think of various projects that would not only get the fish for the children but rather would also teach them on how to catch the fish by themselves. This was through teaching them practical skills of tailoring, handcraft, carpentry, and many others which assisted them so much to the extent that Hannah Ministry has atleast a number of people who are able to testify on how God brought them from isolated life and they have now been able to create their own families, and are able to use the skills they acquired from Hannah Ministry which are currently helping them to earn a living to support them.
She therefore had to think of various projects that would not only get the fish for the children but rather would also teach them on how to catch the fish by themselves. This was through teaching them practical skills of tailoring, handcraft, carpentry, and many others which assisted them so much to the extent that Hannah Ministry has atleast a number of people who are able to testify on how God brought them from isolated life and they have now been able to create their own families, and are able to use the skills they acquired from Hannah Ministry which are currently helping them to earn a living to support them.
This made the project and initiative to slide back to a larger extent but the local community after having recognized the good ideas of creating and establishing Hannah Ministry and how it had begun positively impacting these families, they also begun contributing according to their different capacity and once in a while, they are able to take like a sack of rice or porridge flour to feed the children. The Diocesan Pastors also in a while mobilize christians in their respective Parishes and they at times are able to come up with some meals that surely can extend the survival of children for more days as well as the different Diocesan Visitors who whenever we. share with them about the Ministry, according to their capacity, they may or may not but out of love support Financially and even by prayer.
This support has helped Hannah Ministry Tumurere Project in achieving its major goals and mission/Vision which was/were categorized in the following ways;Our prayer would be having a permanent way and means of supporting these children to help them get meals and all the other needs on a regular basis and assist them to also learn some basic skills for those that never had the opportunity to go to school such as young mothers who were defiled on promises of good living, as well as other opportunities that would improve their lives however which was a lie to them thus resulting to early pregnancies, being infected with STDs and other life complications..
What we do
The Hannah Ministry programmes aim to achieve the following by the provision of practical support:
Social
Empower the oldest child to take
responsibility for his or her brothers and sisters to create a
child-led family unit.
Counselling and personal and
group therapy (with other family unit leaders)
Regular coaching and support in
planning for the needs of the unit.
Counselling support (individual
and in groups).
Prepare each child for
self-sufficiency and independence.
Economics
Basic food needs.
Clothing.
Provide basic needs to the family
unit.
Accommodation (often providing a
roof, windows and doors on walls built by the children and
their neighbours).
Gospel
Encourage a Christian family
ethos within the Byumba diocese community support
structures.
Encouragement to church family
members to provide support to individual family units.
Teaching the Christian gospel and
encouraging children to commit themselves to Christ.
Disciple the children so that
they can integrate the Christian gospel into the practical
aspects of their life (Note: there is no obligation for the
children to make a profession of Christian faith in order to
receive the love and support of the Hannah Ministry team).
Health
Social insurance to cover
sickness and health needs.
Manpower to create and work on
garden plots to grow foodstuffs making a large contribution
towards achieving self-sufficiency in food.
Release the pressure on the
family unit of treatment of children infected with HIV/AIDS
Free provision of nourishing
meals in the central Hannah Ministry facility in order to
strengthen the body to enable effective drug treatment.
Administration of anti-retroviral
drugs provided free-of-charge within the government’s
programme.
Design and delivery of health and
vocational training programmes for each infected child
Education
Provision of vocational training
designed to the skills and aptitude of each family leader.
Administration of mutual support
groups to engender belief that they can succeed.
Design of educational and
vocational training programme to met the needs of each child
within each family unit.
Regular coaching to build
confidence.
Paying for secondary school
fees.
Organising delivery of vocational
skills training provided by third party institutions in the
area.
Mission
HMT's mission is to support and facilitate the development of children deprived of protection especially the children heads of householders through capacity build of the community "largely based on the Christian faith".
Read moreVision
HMT'vision is to see every child free from fear, coercion and violence; reasurance and love of God, capable of supporting his/her siblings and grow to teach adulthood as responsible citizens of country. HMT would like to see the local community cncerned and care for orphans.
Read morePurpose
The local organisation HMT surports to promote the rights of children, enabling them to grow up healthy and hopeful, be educated and able to realize their full potential for the present and future life, be able to contribute to the development of their nation and the advanement of God's kingdom.
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Education
In Education Hannah Minitry Tumurere provide the school materials to orphans and vulnerable students which make them confident before other students
Social
Hannah Ministry create a culture of taking responsability by giving hens to the families and children which helped them to start small business and helping each other.
VTC Studies
Hannah Ministry Tumurere helped some children to study technical studies by short courses which helped to create some innovations and make some money for helping their famillies.
Board Members
Bishop NGENDAHAYO Emmanuel
President
MUKANGIRUWONSANGA Agnes
Vice.President
NIYOYITA Verena
Secretary
Pastor.NSHIMYIMANA Thadee
CouncelorOur Parteners
