HEAL RWANDAN ORPHANS TOGETHER !
WHY DO I EXIST?/KUKI NDIHO RWANDA ORPHANS SUPPORT PROJECT a Humanitarian efforts for our Children, dedicated to education, financial, physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual healing and the well being of Rwandan orphans affected by genocide & HIV/AIDS
Our Vision & Goal is to provide a loving and safe home, to help educate some of the million plus Rwandan orphans and victims. They are still struggling to overcome the trauma of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 and War.
The Kuki Ndiho “Why Do I Exist?” Rwandan Orphans Support Project Foundation Helping Rwandans and the World to Heal
Kigali, Rwanda & Brooklyn, USA
“For children like us who live in child-headed households, when we have no parents, we live under very difficult conditions; life is very hard and there are times when we are actually even starving.” Umutesi
“For children like us who live in child-headed households, when we have no parents, we live under very difficult conditions; life is very hard and there are times when we are actually even starving.” Umutesi
The Why do I Exist ?/Kuki Ndiho Rwanda Orphans Support Project
was founded by Marie Claudine Mukamabano, an influential speaker, artist, and human rights advocate.
Marie Claudine is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide who has since found a purpose for her existence in helping Rwandan orphans live to their fullest potential.
Our Mission :
KUKI NDIHO RWANDA ORPHANS SUPPORT PROJECT/ WHY DO I EXIST? is a
is a Humanitarian efforts for our Children, dedicated to education,physical, emotional, psychological,financial,spiritual healing and a well being of Rwandan orphans because of genocide & HIV/AIDS.
We succeed at this by producing a vast array of projects which include :
- Creating and managing orphanages,
- Implementing education and
- Training programs,
- Providing social services,
- Supporting community and
- Art therapy centers
- As well as executing numerous media activism campaigns
on behalf of orphans via KUKI NDIHO RWANDA ORPHANS SUPPORT PROJECT .
If you want to contribute to our project please CALL 347 465 4045
or send your donation to:
KUKI NDIHO RWANDA ORPHANS SUPPORT PROJECT
1186 Fulton Street, Brookyln, NY 11216
To learn more please visit www.whydoiexist.org
” Founder Marie-Claudine Mukamabano witnessed the horrors of the genocide in 1994 firsthand, but today is an artist, educator and executive director. Rwanda has one of the highest orphanhood rates in the world and the gap in enrollments between orphans and other children is noticeable among the most vulnerable children – those who lost both parents, are sick with one of many diseases including HIV/AIDS and who may have younger siblings to care for as well.”
MISSION STATEMENT
The Kuki Ndiho Foundation helps rebuild the lives of orphans as well as other children and young adults who have been scarred by the tragic 1994 genocide and its aftermath. It creates within a unique educational and cultural framework, the opportunity to build individual and social developmental momentum and contribute resources, knowledge and support to the recovering communities. We are dedicated to the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual healing and cultivation of the lives of the thousands who survived by producing a vast array of projects which include creating and managing orphanages, education and training programs, social services, community centers, art therapy centers as well as numerous media activism campaigns, films and web sites. These projects will also incorporate and help develop curricula for students around the world to learn of our efforts with Rwandan orphans.
In addition to supporting the families afflicted with HIV/AIDS, another atrocity befalling Africa, Kuki Ndiho focuses on women’s and children’s health, especially mothers and children and their special bond. Its educational programs range from invaluable foreign language and technology classes to hands-on workshops, adult education and other job training. Through its Penpal Correspondence Campaign and Clothing Drives and with the help of the Internet, Kuki Ndiho links other children and students and their parents around the world, allowing all to personally correspond with Rwandans, helping them to deal with and overcome the trauma as well as providing mutual lessons of difference, tolerance and cultural understanding. Committed to the self-sufficient, sustainable environmental movement, Kuki Ndhio’s many community projects help reconnect people to the land and traditional ways of life by creating projects such as organic community farms, technological training, social entrepreneurship, and other grassroots opportunities to combat the flight from rural areas.
In addition to supporting the families afflicted with HIV/AIDS, another atrocity befalling Africa, Kuki Ndiho focuses on women’s and children’s health, especially mothers and children and their special bond. Its educational programs range from invaluable foreign language and technology classes to hands-on workshops, adult education and other job training. Through its Penpal Correspondence Campaign and Clothing Drives and with the help of the Internet, Kuki Ndiho links other children and students and their parents around the world, allowing all to personally correspond with Rwandans, helping them to deal with and overcome the trauma as well as providing mutual lessons of difference, tolerance and cultural understanding. Committed to the self-sufficient, sustainable environmental movement, Kuki Ndhio’s many community projects help reconnect people to the land and traditional ways of life by creating projects such as organic community farms, technological training, social entrepreneurship, and other grassroots opportunities to combat the flight from rural areas.
KUKI NDIHO’s LONG-TERM GOALS:
>> Support all Rwandans, Africans and those in need, focusing on orphans, widows and the sick especially HIV/AIDS and those traumatized by genocide and war.
>> Promote pacificism, anti-militarism & non-violence
>> Develop the education of Rwandan woman and children.
>> Design sustainable environment-conscious social situations
>> Encourage international intercultural exchanges.
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>> Promote pacificism, anti-militarism & non-violence
>> Develop the education of Rwandan woman and children.
>> Design sustainable environment-conscious social situations
>> Encourage international intercultural exchanges.
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
>> 200 children studying in primary school, high (secondary) school
>> Annual Peace Convention
>> Presentations at New York City schools
>> Partnership Programs
>> New web sites,other media initiatives
>> Start of Documentary Film Project
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>> Annual Peace Convention
>> Presentations at New York City schools
>> Partnership Programs
>> New web sites,other media initiatives
>> Start of Documentary Film Project
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