Beny – Africa visit April 29, 2019

Bob Field has been helping Beny and her family for several years. He and I went over to Rwanda in April 2019 and checked on things and started helping a project in a preschool with about 50 little 3 to 5 year old really poor children. The project is to prepare them for public school. They are all undernourished and their families Do not know how to read and write so at the preschool they are feed good food and are getting a little head start on what school is.

While in Kigali bob bought some electric sewing machines for Benys mom to use in the sewing classes where she has 18 neighborhood ladies she was teaching on 1 old Treadle Singer Sewing machine. What an improvement! The Nehalem Bay Winery purchased 100 bags, cute shopping bags that fold up and are stored in a cute little heart shaped coin purse, from Benys mom and Beny shipped them. They arrived at the Winery in July , just before I took off.

Bye the way they are for sale……
Hope the background info helps.

Christian’s 23 years old -Africa

There are 3 kids in Beny’s neighborhood who lost their mother in the last year because of sickness and she was the only parent they have (the father of the kids also died a long time aged they are living alone orphans), she were the one working hard to provide for the family since the kids were still in school .the oldest of them (his name is Christian) is 23 years old and was about to complete his university studies ,he hadone semester left, the second one (Kevin) finished his highschool and the last one (their only sister Christelle is in highschool (grade eleven) Beny passed by their home and the guy (Christian) told Beny that he dropped his studies because it was so hard for them to get life expenses plus tuition and other school requirement so he had to sacrifice and leave school so that he can find some work to do to make her sister at least finish highschool, butagain which is a bad option as he can’t get enough money for survival (he became a parent to the kids as he is the oldest among them) they have a house where to live but getting food and other life basics needs him to work very hard. Life is getting harder for the kids

Not because i am not grateful but with the story of the kids i felt so touched that i wanted to share it with you and ask if there is anything you can help the kids so that they can stay in school (either with christian that he can complete his bachelors or with his younger sister so that it can be easy for him because i trust helping her sister will make him also go back to SKUL as it will no longer take him to work to pay her school fees.but again it can be easy and so helpful to help their sister