Support 70 street girls and teen/pre-teen mothers.

As we are all aware, from March to June 2020, Rwanda experienced a crisis due to COVID-19 pandemic as well as other parts worldwide. Centre Marembo as an organization that supports vulnerable girls and teen mothers from streets, the situation has become worse and it had to overcome a lot of challenges caused by the pandemic and deserters caused by heavy rains. We received more beneficiaries as they should leave from the streets in lockdown period.

Considering the limited capacity we have to feed and accommodate more and more girls and teen mothers with their babies, Centre Marembo faced serious matters during this period. Following are major challenges: hunger, lack of hygiene sanitaries, many homeless families, sickness and unawareness on CORONA virus prevention measures. Fortunately, Centre Marembo has overcame all challenges by reintegrate 26 girls and teen mothers who beneficiated the whole program. This facilitated the organization to receive new comers.

Centre Marembo gave food to families of our beneficiaries in the communities, reason that due to COVID-19 lockdown, they could not carry out their day to day activities as most of them are casual workers. In addition to that Centre Marembo provided sanitary items to the beneficiaries and premises that were affected by the pandemic of COVID-19.

Centre Marembo has done different activities related to mobilization to the fight against the pandemic COVID-19 spread by designing banners with specific messages in Kinyarwanda and English, hanged in our premises and public areas of our stakeholders.