Fifty families in Kigarama sector are receiving support from an International Charity organization called Hope and Homes for Children (HHC).
The organization has been working in Rwanda, in collaboration with the National Commission for Children(NCC), working to ensure that all children living in orphanages have a right to live under family based care, the programme known as deinstitutionalisation.
The support aims at increasing family resilience by keeping children and families together thus preventing children from going to institutions or to the streets.
“At HHC we believe that every child should have a chance to grow up in a loving family, which is why we are doing our best to avoid family break down that lead to child abandonment” said Innocent Habimfura.
Habimana is the Head of Programme Management in charge of Community and alternative services at HHC.
He added that this process involves a range of interventions that prevent children from abandonment and separation from their families.
“We give support to families to improve their resilience to care for the children and prevent them from abandonment,” he said.
Families that benefited from the support include former sex workers, house workers and other vulnerable people.
Marie Grace Uwimana, a mother of 5 children resident at Karugira cell, Kigarama Sector in Kicukiro District joyfully said “Hope and Homes for Children workers paid a visit to our home and, have provided us with help in form of training, food and other items to prevent our children from running away from home.”
Vedaste Uwimana, in charge of Social, economic and development in Karugira cell, a family of 3 people gets 15 kg of rice, maize floor, beans, sosoma and 5 litres of cooking oil. Such family also receives a sum of Frw7000 to use on charcoal for cooking and Frw 5000 to buy vegetables for good nutrition of children.
Uwimana said this on February, 6th 2013 when food items were being handed over to beneficiaries.
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