Beschreibung
Our ministry is an ODV with a registered office in France. It operates in Rwanda, specifically in Burima Village, district Rubavu, sector Nyamyumba, cell Rubona.

The idea of this association has born in 2017 from Etienne and Desire: two Rwandan guys that grew up in orphanage due to the 1994 genocide. When the orphanage closed in 2015 they came to Burima village and saw in which situation the children and their families were living. Steven and Desire decided to give them support.

Thanks to the help of numerous volunteers they could rent a house where to organise simple school classes and cook some simple meals. In 2021 was finally founded the Ministry to give a bigger support to the project and secure the rights of the donators.

At our ministry we give shelter to children that have nowhere to go because they are left alone from their parents all day long. The young mothers and the poor families, already broken by poverty and hunger, have no time and will to take care of them. Most of them have to spend the day working in the city or in Congo and they are away from home from the morning to the night. We reach out to the most endangered children, giving them basic education, some meals and emotional support.

We and the children of Burima are looking forward to meet you! ❣️
Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten
Karitative Arbeit
Kunstprojekte
Sprachpraxis
Unterrichten
Gartenarbeiten
Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten
Babysitten und Kinderbetreuung
Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie
Hausarbeiten
Handwerkliche Arbeiten
Hilfe mit Computer /Internet
UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt
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Was ist das?
Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten
This will be for you a life changing experience! They joy and love that you will receive and give to the children and the inhabitants of Burima is worth every effort. You will re consider our manner of life and priorities, you will come back home knowing that you changed some people and your own life.
Projekte mit Kindern
Dieses Projekt schließt möglicherweise den Umgang mit Kindern ein. Mehr Informationen findest du in unseren Verhaltensregeln und Tipps hier.
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- We need help with basic child care for our students. We especially need people who can teach them basic english through songs and dialogs, playing games with them.

- Help us coordinating the sewing project with the cooperative of single mothers of the village

- Organize the garden: we need people with experience in gardening to organize the green area behind the school, planting tomatoes, beans, and manioca.

- Communication: We have an Instagram page and Tiktok. If you like social networks and know how to use them, your creation and imagination to develop our community will be very appreciated.

- Community needs: you will live in a very poor community where there is a great need for old clothes of all ages, toys for kids, learning materials like books, pens , marseille soap for washing kids. What ever you can bring with you from your own country will be very appreciated.

We appreciate any help that is given to us and the community.
Sprachen
Gesprochene Sprachen
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda): Fließend
Englisch: Gute Kenntnisse
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Unterkunft
You will have the unique opportunity to live as Rwandan local people do. One room can accommodate two volunteers with a double bed and another can welcome one volunteer. Those two rooms are located inside the school Ministry. There is electricity to charge your phones and computers.
The dry toilet is outside. As you can imagine, there is no tap system. The showers are done with a bucket of water, heated if necessary. There are no cleaning middles: bring from home what you need to clean the surfaces in your room.

Meals: You will share dinner and a simple breakfast with the house family. You can cook yourself a lunch or go to eat at a restaurant in Gisenyi. We do not ask for a specific amount of money but you must be able to buy or to let them buy food and share it with the family: count on an expense of 5.000 RWF per day to feed yourself and your partner if you are a couple and another 7 people.
Was noch ...
Burima is a small village on the hills near Gisenyi city, with a beautiful view over the whole valley and only 10 minutes by moto taxi from the lake shore. There are plenty of options you can choose to do in your free time and weekends.
Desire will assist you to visit the hot springs, tea and banana plantation. On lake Kivu you can do various activities such as fishing, boating etc. This beautiful country has a lot to offer!
Etwas mehr Information
- Internet Zugang
- Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang
- Wir besitzen Tiere
- Wir sind Raucher
- Familien möglich
Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal
mehr als zwei
Arbeitszeiten
Maximum 4 hours a day, 5 days a week
Dieser Host verlangt Gebühren
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5 USD per day to help with food costs

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14 Dez. 2022

Vom Host für Workawayer (Renata)

Renata is very amazing person, full of positive energie. She was an awesome guest, such a friendly and humble person to meet, it was great having her. Thank you for contributing to our project of teaching so much, thank you for all the ideas how to improve our activities. Welcome back any time to our family.

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10 Apr. 2022

What an experience! I stayed there for almost 2 months and I can say that a part of my mind and my soul is still in the Burima village with all the children, steven, Desire, Dorkas, Yvette and all the very nice people!
Each morning (from 8 am), I was in the class to welcome the kids with Steven and Desire, I helped them with basic English and… read more

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27 Jan. 2022

I spent 2 months at the school, every morning I gave classes to teach the basics of education to the poor children of the village who are not lucky enough to be in real school. We study the alphabet, the numbers, the colors, the months, the days... Before arriving, I had brought back school materials to do art activities at the end of the classes.… read more The children loved being able to color, paint... Every Friday we also had sports or yoga classes, the best way for the children to finish the week! What a joy to see all these children smiling and living moments of happiness. Many children want to participate in the classes, but don't panic, our great teachers and founder, Steven and Desire will always be there to support you.
I felt like I was in my family, they welcomed me with a lot of kindness and love. All the members of the family are adorable! I had a wonderful time with them. I miss them so much!
In my free afternoons I had the chance to go to the tea plantation, discover how banana beers are made, go to the hot springs, go to the beach which is only a few minutes away from the school and many other things. This family will do everything to make you feel good, not to mention the delicious food they will prepare for you. If you have never been to Africa and even less in the villages, the change of life will be total, it is a shock of cultures but beautiful life experience guaranteed. ! You will not regret it, trust me.

Burima Village is full of people with a good heart, all the people who will have the chance to live this experience will be lucky to discover this beautiful culture, these splendid landscapes in hills, live these moments with talented children and share moments with a golden family. In addition to a new family, I made friends that I will never forget. I had a wonderful life experience with great people! In order to be able to follow the children on the long term, I decided to open the association in France, to animate the social networks and to launch a crowndfunding fund to allow young children to be educated in real schools.

They need new volunteers who commit themselves for a long period of time, to ensure the visibility on social networks, to collect donations for the schooling of the children and to make the project grow!

Now I can't wait to meet them again, to come back soon and support new children!

God bless you Steven, Diana, Dorkar, Desire, Yvette, baby, Aman, Yvette, Rosette, Janvier.... All of you !

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14 Dez. 2022

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18 Mai 2021

Vom Workawayer (Susie & Laurent) für Host

We spent 7 days with Desire, Steven, Frédéric and their families. We were warmly welcomed. We ate every evening together, Mama Bricé (Frederic’s wife) did most of the cooking. We prepared one French dish for one evening, which was quite successful and otherwise we were mostly chopping and chatting! We bought most of the food for the week for… read more everybody.
We had an independent room in the small compound (with fridge, light, and a kettle), and the kids had a room in Frederic’s house just next door, with bunk beds. The compound was shared by three families and had one small hut with a squat latrine and space and privacy for a bucket shower – there’s no running water in the village. We heated water with the kettle. Frédéric has excellent French and English, while Desire and Steven have good English. Some Kinyarwanda is very useful in this village where very few people understand English or French. You can find and buy all basic food needed in the village – fruit and vegetables, water, biscuits, soap…. If you need anything else, you can take a bicycle or moto taxi to Gisenyi (30 minutes away). We recommend visiting the market. Burima village is around 5ks from Lake Kivu and there is plenty to do in the surrounding area.
Each morning (from 8 am), we walked the 2 minutes to the “library”, the small house where Steven and Desire welcome around 60 kids each day. Split into two groups according to age, we helped them with basic English and French through games and played together outside (our kids taught them new outside games). We spent one morning showing the kids how to prepare the soil in the garden and to plant seeds. We even had a couple of yoga session, with lots of laughs!! We proposed and organized a cinema session for the smallest kids on our last Saturday afternoon (with pineapple, watermelon and lollypops). It was a wonderful experience to spend time with so many children who were full of enthusiasm and motivation. It’s a wonderful thing Steven and Desire are doing for the kids, and some visitors have sponsored children to continue supporting them in their lives and education.
If you are white (muzungu in swahili), do not be surprised to be touched and followed by hordes of children in the village. After a few days, and if you know a few basic words in Kinyarwanda, they will be less oppressive. Our two kids (8 and 13) sometimes felt a little overwhelmed.
We decided to contribute financially to the project:
- For a few materials for the classroom: exercise books, pencils, coloured crayons, (35USD)
- To help fixing the rainwater harvesting tank on the school, (11 USD)
- For the cinema session. (15 USD)
A week is very short though, and we recommend to stay longer, to get used to the place, to the kids... and for the kids to get used to you! We had the time to enjoy the football on Saturday morning, with people from nearby villages.
One big regret: we did not say good bye to the kids, as the day we left was a bank holiday, but we were not aware.
Thank you again to all of them, and we wish them good luck for the future.

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20 Dez. 2019

Vom Workawayer (Arianne & Lexi ) für Host

I stayed almost a whole month here in Gisenyi with Desire and his family. What a life changing experience in Rwanda. Everyday was a new adventure and i'm so glad everything worked out the way it did. Steven, Desire, Patrick, Adelphine, Eftar, Melvin... You all became my family in such a short amount of time. I did many things here at the ministry.… read more

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