Basic Needs For Education

We believe that child development begins with recognizing any deficiencies in having their basic needs met. Our enrolled children and their families all live lives in poverty and therefore face hardships daily. Over 90% of the families only have a primary school education and are very limited on skills that make them marketable to hiring companies. Further, the cycle of poverty from previous generations in their families, has been passed down and further exacerbated by the 1994 Rwanda Genocide Against the Tutsi. Our primary role at Hope Shines is to only work with those in this extreme poverty category, identify their needs, address the basic needs, then build programs that further support them and enable them to improve their lives.