Build 5 homes for 26 vulnerable children in Rwanda

Shelter Them Batarure Rwanda project fundraising goal grew of 4% from our previous report. This is an important increase notwithstanding the Covid 19 pandemic. Our major donors who used to come to see Shelter Them  Batarure projects suspended their trips due to Covid 19 restriction worldwide. This has affected negatively our fundraising campaign to reach 40,000$ in 2021.

In our previous report we committed to start the building of two homes with the funds we have so far raised.  Shelter them co-founders also initiated a 71Km Walk to Shelter Them campaign to raise funds to supplement what we had collected so far. Shelter Them founders; Josephine Murphy and Jocelyne Alexandre walked from Hamilton Mountain to the CN Tower in Toronto, about 71 km for two days Saturday and Sunday, October 9 and 10, to raise funds to complete building two homes in the move to reach our ultimate goal of building 5 houses by end of 2021. To support  this campaign donate by clicking on this link: https://www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/37098/.

Currently we are at 80% completion construction works of two houses. We expect to finish these two houses by the end of November 2021, and start immediately two more houses. By end of December 2021, we anticipate to have four houses completed to settle in four vulnerable families.  Some of the families who have settled in our new finished houses and others yet to relocate in have found to suffer from mental health issues because of the adversity of life they went through since their early age. Because of this problem suffer from all kinds of addictions. We believe to recruit a professional counselor for them to get recovered from the addictions.

Their kids will be taken care of the caregivers from the community center we have already built.

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• The project support children get shelter and education
• Two houses will accommodate two vulnerable families