a street kids life… Sponsoring SKR…

Most street kids never

learn to read or write and
A little can change a life. If you would like
have no hope for a better more information or wish to give to any of the
future. They eat what they Street Kids Rescue project please fill in the
can find from rubbish insert or get in touch. A gift of only £12 a
heaps continually against
poor health. Many finish month will do the following:
up resorting to glue
sniffing and drugs, Provide healthy nutritious food
stealing and robbing.
3 days a week for a child

As Rwanda continues its Supply a child with clothes, soap,

Street
journey of recovery from the
genocide of 1994, hampered
by poverty and the highest
toothpaste and other toiletries
throughout the year Kids
population density in Africa,
those children’s potential to
is lost. Instead of being part
Help re-integrate children to school by
paying for fees and books
Rescue
of a better future for
Rwanda their skills and
personalities are lost in a Provide beds and food for children
morass of crime and who have to sleep at the church
hopelessness.
Provide for vocational workshops,
Abandoned by family and society they can training and kitchen equipment.
find a better life through the Street Kids
Rescue project. Please be part of their 100% of your gift goes directly to
future. Comfort Rwanda

Comfort Rwanda was established in Scotland in

82 Arden Grove, Kilsyth, G65 9NU, Scotland, UK
1999 to partner Solace, an indigenous Rwandan
tel: 01236 827251
charity bringing aid and reconciliation to widows and
web: www.comfortrwanda.org.uk
orphans following the genocide of 1994. Together email: enquiry@comfortrwanda.org.uk
we have seen hearts, homes & livelihoods restored.
Today they live with a hope and a future. Comfort Rwanda is a Scottish Charity SC 030369
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aims of the pro
Our partner in the project is
food and
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Gatenga, Kigali. Their heart clothes for st
is to respond to social,
economic, spiritual and support for
• To provide s
moral problems of Rwandan d social need
society with love, truth and emotional an
practical help. In especial reet
respect for st
their concern for the nation’s children has led them to • To increase e
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developing this street kids project to tackle the poverty kids and info so ci et y
play in
role they can
and pain of those street kids.

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em how to re
ad
known as the heart of and write
Africa, Rwanda is tucked
between Uganda, Tanzania,
em ployment
Congo and Burundi • To provide
trainin g
less than 1/3 the size of
Scotland, it is home to 8
reet kids
million people • To teach st
od
the word of G
coffee & tea plantations,
bananas, cassava, sweet potatoes
em about
& beans cover “the land of 1000 hills” • To inform th S
h and HIV/AID
personal healt
In 1994 over 1 million people were massacred in the
genocide leaving around 300,000 widows and orphans.

When they are given love, A Rwandan government report estimates there are 7000
children living on the streets in Rwanda’s cities. Kigali is by
God’s Love for the Street Kids
hope and resources the
street kids visibly change far the major urban area with most of those children living The Bible calls God the Father of the
month by month. They on its streets. fatherless. He has a great heart of
have renamed themselves compassion for the poor and oppressed, the
After the 1994 genocide the rapid growth of orphan and the broken-hearted. Such love
“Friends of Jesus”, formed
Kigali and the large numbers of orphans led to and compassion are our motivation for
a choir and written their helping those street children.
many child survivors finishing up on Kigali’s streets.
own songs testifying to
Those street children have been joined by others,
the change in their lives We believe every one of them is made in
orphaned by the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, who have
and their determination God’s image and has the ability to reach
been forced to try to support themselves on the
never to return to the their great potential by coming into contact
streets. Due to the poverty experienced by many
street life. It is a miracle of with this God of mercy and love, backed up
other children are unwillingly abandoned or sent to by practical support and help.
transformation. the streets to eke out a living there.