Now it is finally a vacation season. What are HIL scholarship students in Rwanda doing during their vacation? Let us introduce our house repair campaign which is conducted during a vacation.
[ HUMAN IN LOVE house repair campaign in Rwanda ]
Students in Rweru Now have Hope and Participate in HIL House Repair Campaign
Rweru sector in Rwanda is a small town resided by refugees and returnees. Since 2013, HUMAN IN LOVE has provided scholarship for middle and high school students who are very passionate about learning but cannot afford. Thanks to the scholarship program, they can go to school and study very hard with the belief that they can achieve their dreams.
[ Students who have completed HIL capacity building program for youth in Rweru sector (2017.12.1) ]
[ A HIL scholarship student is mentoring his mentee ]
HIL scholarship students are showing excellent performance that Rweru sector has never seen before, changing the parents’ awareness on education. Those students include Adeliphine who topped the national high school exam, Emmanuel who entered national medical university and Erneste who entered national education university in Rwanda.
During a vacation, they participate in voluntary activities to help their friends who are in need.
A House with Broken Wall and Full of Smoke
Houses in countryside are usually just built with mud and a slate roof. People cannot afford decent doors or windows, so they just seal a place for windows or doors with mud.
This is why the mud wall collapses during a rainy season and those houses are full of smoke when they cook. For them, cement walls, decent windows and doors can help a lot.
[ A house built with mud walls ]
[ A house that its mud wall collapsed ]
We Are Repairing Our Friends’ House
When it is a school vacation, HIL scholarship students are gathered at their friend’s house. Male students move materials and mix cement while female students cement a mud wall and make a door and window.
[ HIL scholarship students are participating in the house repair program ]
HIL scholarship students take this house repair program seriously. Even after they go back to their school, which is outside of Rweru sector, they still think about the houses they repaired, worrying whether the houses collapse due to rain, whether their friends and family don’t skip meals or don’t get sick. Since they sincerely care about each other, they walk two to three hours to help repair their friend’s house as if it is theirs.
This year, they will help repair the houses of Theoneste and Richard who returned from Tanzania after spending a long time as a refugee.
