By Jennie Norman and Nancy Zeller | Project Leaders
As we reported in July, with our families unable to work and the children unable to get meals at school, we saw the urgent need to provide food and rent support and your generosity has been overwhelming. For the past five months we have provided monthly food assistance, rent subsidies and have covered several emergency medical issues.
Our mission to help Rwandan families help themselves by providing support for education, job skills and training, has been hard hit by the COVID-19 lockdown. Our dyers have been unable to get new fabric and we have not been able to sell their beautiful wraps through many of our normal retail outlets due to closures. Our taxi entrepreneur was shut down for months as well. With the kids unable to get their meals at school, there was enormous financial stain on our already struggling families, not to mention the disappointment of no longer being able to contribute to their own support at the same level.
Your generous support for this temporary relief is helping them get through to the other side, when we all hope to find a new normal. For this we and they thank you - from the bottom of our hearts.
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