By Jules HIGIRO | Country Manager
Shelter Them Batrure has already built four (04) houses out of the five (05) that were in the initial plan. There are currently 22 vulnerable children who have been rescued from the deplorable situation they lived in before as they were exposed to natural disasters of all kinds. Lack of shelter coupled with lack of necessities such as food and healthcare had put the lives of these children in danger. After the children moved to the new houses built and their families, Shelter Them Batarurehad involved their families to start the quick impact projects such as farming, sewing and groups saving scheme. In addition, the children had been supported to go to school.
Currently the results are impressive. So far, Shelter Them Batarure is supporting two cooperatives- farming and saving cooperative, and sewing cooperative where all its beneficiaries are empowered to become self-sufficient. The farming and saving cooperative do farming of maize and beans. They have harvested four times, and their crops have been sold and have saved their money. The sewing cooperative members make clothes and sale them, then save their money.
Currently, except from the four houses Shelter Them have built for them, they are providing bread on their table for themselves and they are proud to continue doing so towards their sustainability.
It has been an exciting journey mixed of success and failures to support them so that at one point they are empowered to break the dependency syndrome.
Shelter Them rests assured that the future of the children under Shelter Them support will be better because of the great opportunities created to their parents, and a conducive environment we put in place to enable these children have proper education.
We are so grateful for the generosity of the donors who supported this cause so that these children can have a life filled with hope. We still need your help to be able to accomplish our goal fully.
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