HISTORY

Our school was established in the space of a former church and at first had barely 40 pupils. Today, it has almost 150 pupils, football and other teams, and the pupils regularly go to see the Rwandan parliament.

Principal Eric talks about the history of the school and its establishment

STORY ABOUT HOW I HELPED AND EDUCATED THE CHILDREN OF SEX WORKERS

When I was a student I grew up with the goal of helping people, When I finished high school, I immediately had a great opportunity, and I immediately got a job at an orphanage, called “UKUNDO FOUNDATION“ Located in MUHANGA region.

This was the beginning of my dream because I felt I wanted to help, In 3 years, I just worked there and learned a lot that I needed. It even gave me a sense of what society wanted, because the large number of children we received, mostly consisted of street-picked children thrown away by parents (prostitutes).

At that time, I decided to retire from work and changed my direction, I went to Eastern Province, KAYONZA District, MUKARANGE Sector. While there, I started “DON'T CRY YOUTH ASSOCIATION“, which was formed by all the young people who were sex workers (prostitutes) and those who lived on the street at this time I saw that they really needed someone who is close to them, talks to them, and even gave them basic education i.e READING, COUNTING AND WRITING, even praying, Because most of them were having different hard life story again uneducated and others were school dropouts.

While I was teaching these young women, many of them had babies, and some of them were already infected with HIV/AIDS, and the other used drugs. It was a hard task but God enabled me. In all this, I had to find a place to earn money to help me pay the rent and support me as well.

I faced problems with funds, but I established a way of teaching adult people English during evening hours in order to get some financial support so that I can pay rent and remain with some money for self-support as well. But all in all, my wish was to see these young women and boys form a co-operative for making handcrafts and find for them sewing machines to help them make a living.

It is place where the school began from

HOW DID I GET THE IDEA TO START THE SCHOOL

I spent many nights without sleep thinking about young mothers and their babies on the street, I wondered what they were doing to study, because some had reached the time to go to school. During one night, I had a sleepless night and in the morning I went to the pastor who had a church to help me lend me a church with chairs and tables and he accepted. The next day I started a school for prostitutes called “ CHILDREN'S WORLD SCHOOL “. This name for me made me happy because I felt it went with the dreams of these children, On the first day we taught, 31 children, This number continued to rise every day because of the quality knowledge that was introduced in this temple, which made other residents of the temple start asking us to bring children and thus pay for them. So we ended the year with 183 children.

Because of the way this school ended, the first year was popular ', so the following year I rented a large area to continue teaching 'children', so in the second year, the number increased even more and we ended the year with 287 children

At this time, my guard asked me to give me his land to build a school, so I would pay a little more, and I started with some buildings.

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The first own buildings after renting

Here the babies from sex workers were growing up

Eric and his team used to try to give milk to young poor children fron poor families

Since our establishment, we have succeeded in achieving our goals. Among other things, our children visited the parliament.

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