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Beacon Program developments can be found here: Read the rest of this entry »
The Koinonia Foundation has awarded the first micro-grant to the women of the Beacon Program. Each of the 10 women of the Ingenzi K-Light Cooperative has been awarded 6 K-Lights as the capital with which to start her small business. Read the rest of this entry »
Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug.3, 2009 – Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Koinonia Foundation (www.kfaid.com) recently joined with V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls (www.vday.org), to donate 500 solar-powered K-Light lanterns to women, families, schools and medical centers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Read the rest of this entry »
In January 2009, the Koinonia Foundation donated 500 K-Lights to V-DAY, Eve Ensler’s organization to end violence worldwide against women and girls. These lanterns went to families around the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo. Find the blog about it here.
In June, right before we left on our project trip to Rwanda, we got this note from Christine Deschryver of V-DAY:
For last year’s pilot Wall of Words program, we worked with Books for Africa, an organization based out of the United States, to bring thousands of books to Rwanda. We were able to distribute these books among a number of schools, which we went back to visit on this year’s project trip. Read the rest of this entry »
Today, we met with a representative of SURF UK to view the Survivors’ Centre in Kamonyi.
This all came about when we contacted Jules Shell of Foundation Rwanda, who connected us with David Russell of SURF, who, in turn, asked us if we would be interested in meeting up with SURF Rwanda coordinator Gabo Wilson to visit the site.
We said we’d be pleased to. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s about halfway through our trip, and yesterday we trekked out to the Shyara School to check on the solar power system we had installed last year. We also needed to install some special low-power lights in the classrooms and outside the facilities.
When we arrived at the school after a nearly two-hour drive, a large group of students, teachers, and community members gathered to greet us. Read the rest of this entry »
We had arrived safely in Kigali on Saturday afternoon. Our colleagues were kind enough, as always, to meet us at the airport, and we used the rest of the day to settle in. Read the rest of this entry »
At noon on June 13, we touched down at Kigali International Airport in Rwanda. We had left our homes on June 11, stayed overnight in Washington, D.C., and then had a 15-hour flight through Rome to Addis Ababa.
Finally, Kigali. It felt good to be in Rwanda. Read the rest of this entry »
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