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support the families and children of tomorrow!
The Children’s Services
Centre
"The greatest good we can do for others is not to give them our wealth, but to show them their own."
Louis Lavelle
“The only thing really needed for the tranquillity of the world is that every child can grow up happy.”
Indian Chief Dan George
The Children’s Services Centre is an NGO (Non-Government Organisation) that brings together Rwandan and Belgian women to pursue two objectives:
- undertaking practical programmes in Rwanda. They are aimed at allowing Rwandan children to grow up in a fulfilling educational environment that is based on living together in harmony
- enabling Rwandan women to integrate socially and professionally, either by working (in all sectors), or by learning a profession that is linked to the education of young children – something that does not currently exist in Rwanda.
THE PEOPLE RUNNING THE PROJECT
In Belgium
This project is supported by the association ‘Synergie Wallonie pour l’Egalité entre les Femmes et les Hommes’ (Synergy Wallonia for Equality between Women and Men).
Synergie Wallonie pour l’Egalité entre les Femmes et les Hommes is a non-government organisation that is philosophically pluralistic. The overall aim of the association is to fight against discrimination and inequality of all kinds experienced by women, as well as to promote the cause of women through its own activities.
In the context of its statutory missions, the aim is to support and provide guidance for an association of Belgian and Rwandan women and to create this Children’s Services Centre in Kigali.
To enable this general interest project to be implemented and to make an active contribution towards bringing long-term change to society in Rwanda, ‘Synergie Wallonie’ has obtained the support of the King Baudouin Foundation by way of a “project account”.
Aware of the real needs of projects supported by ordinary people and with its wish to see the growing involvement of donors, the King Baudouin Foundation seeks to encourage solidarity and support. Working through the “project account” system, the Foundation provides many donors with the opportunity to show their generosity for the benefit of a fairer society.
Your donations are tax-deductible in Belgium.
100% of the money donated made will be allocated to the practical implementation of projects in Rwanda.
In Rwanda
A group of women, Belgian and Rwandan, are associated as part of an NGO to create these Children’s Services. These women in particular are:
REINE
Marcelis
MARIE-THÉRÈSE
Nyirimana
EUGÉNIE
Uzazigira
What is it?
The “Children’s Services Centre” association pursues the following practical objectives:
- To develop innovative, high-quality projects in Rwanda that provide services for children aged 0 to 7. These projects are designed to accommodate specific new needs, particularly the reception of children with disabilities.
- To create spaces capable of receiving and providing accommodation and activities that benefit children and their families.
- To reinforce the educational support of these unique structures for the future in Rwanda in order to ensure the quality of the way in which children and their families are received and supported.
Why?
Our aim is to respond to a need in society that has become essential. In Kigali, women are part of the working and business world. The Children’s Services Centre will naturally take its place as a unique and innovative structure.
At the present time, there is no structure capable of taking in children aged 0 to 7 whose parents work variable and/or extended hours.
By providing a quality service, six days a week, from 7.00 am to 8.00 pm, the Children’s Services Centre emphasises the flexibility of its opening times.
How?
By creating, in Kigali:
- a crèche capable of accommodating 50 children aged from 0 to 36 months
- a safe place outside school hours capable of receiving and looking after 50 children aged from 3 to 7, before and after school, as well as during school holidays
- a training centre for workers in the sector dealing with children
Our educational concepts
Providing a quality service that meets the needs of parents (accepting their children flexibly in terms of hours), as part of an educational project run by qualified personnel who are committed to ongoing (self-) training programmes, while at the same time offering quality job opportunities and employment integration processes to male and female workers who have few or no qualifications.
This is based on two top-priority educational concepts: first the development of the child, which is at the centre of our intentions and one of the driving forces behind all of our educational projects, and second, listening to the child’s needs, aspirations and interests. Doing so, we are able to provide him or her with a quality educational supervision that is in no way comparable to mere recreation.
MAKE A DONATION
“There is no doubt about it: a small group of aware, committed individuals can change the world. Indeed, the world has always changed that way.” Margaret Mead – Anthropologist
Why are we appealing for donations?
This project has the support of the local authorities in Rwanda, both in terms of the creation of reception environments and for training centres. These local authorities will support us in all of our administrative processes. By contrast, they are unable to envisage the provision of any funding. It is for this reason that we are asking for donations to get the project underway.
The ongoing future of the project will be assured by contributions from the parents who use the Centre. These contributions will cover operating costs for the child accommodation areas and for the training centre.
Please help a child to grow up in a secure educational environment. Add your own personal brick or more to the building by contributing to the creation of the “Crèche and out-of-school reception centre in Kicukiro, Kigali in Rwanda” project.
“It costs less to help a child to develop in the first place than it does to repair that child later” Jean EPSTEIN, psychosociologist.
You can make your donation by clicking on:
Rue de Gembloux 500, bte 23,
5002 Namur - Saint-Servais
