Rwanda: Ladies are the Hearts of a Country

To my Beloved Sponsor Sister,

How are you doing over there? And how is life?

It is a pleasure to me to have the opportunity and write to you so that I get to know your news. Did you get my letter? Thank you so much for the sponsorship. I have been getting and it had been very useful and I thank you for your good wish to me of having a bright future. We have a saying in our language that ladies are hearts of a family. So it is clear that they can even be the heart of a country.

But in accordance to genocide that took place here women faced a lot of trouble. They were raped. Their husbands were killed. Their children were killed, even their parents and friends. They were made victims of AIDS due to raping. The government used all possible ways to help them. We have got a big number in the leadership.

 Secondly, I am happy to meet you. I am called Claudine. I am a cultivator of things. I tried to get domestic animals, 2 goats and 2 rabbits. So after garden work I look after my animals since all the children are at school. It is good you want to assist the poor women who can’t support themselves. I didn’t get the chance of going to school because my parents were too poor. They are no longer in existence. I pray to God that I become stronger. I am sure my prayers will do a big job to help me lead a better life on this earth. I don’t feel happy when my friends go to bed with out food or if they have other problems.

In Rwanda here we lead a poor life. There were no friendships among the people, every person was alone to the extent of genocide broke out in 1994.This is how I came to loose my family where I originate from and from my husband’s side. I pray hard that it won’t happen to any other person. We should be living in a good world without hatred so that our children will be in a happy world. Let me stop here. Have a good time. God bless you till next time.

 ~Claudine

Rwanda: “I find myself with something little, but mine.”

Letter Quotes: Rwanda

“My dear sponsor, I greet you in the name of almighty God. I don’t know how to say this, I am very grateful to you and I have nothing to say other than asking almighty to bless you endlessly. You got me out of misery. I was very poor and I thought that I was the poorest being on earth. But now I am getting fine and well off. Now I sell fruits and I thank very much and I think that only the Almighty God can compensate for your goodwill, no one else. Now I am not the way I used to be, because nowadays at the end of the day, I find myself with something little, but mine. “~Therez

“I write this letter to thank you for your support that improved my life from poverty and loneliness. I sell many things including clothes. Whenever I needed soap, salt and other domestic requirements, I used to wait for my husband to buy them for me. But now I have been independent, being able to get what I needed without waiting for him to buy it for me.  I can’t stop appreciating your support that leads me to this good life, thank you….  You are always in my heart. Bye bye.” ~Gaudence

 ”I was excited to receive your letter talking about your good life. I was also pleased with your picture that included you, your husband and your beautiful very beautiful sweet baby. This showed me that you received my letter…. You told me how you traveled in your country and even beyond your borders! This made me happy! But for me I have never traveled beyond our borders. I just went to our capital city of our country Rwanda, the capital Kigali. So I enclose our picture and the one you see in a colored shirt is our neighbor who wanted to be with us in the picture. Let me close here.  Until next time I wish you peace and luck forever.” ~ Patricia

“Dear Wendi, I am please writing to you informing you that the support you send me was of great help. Thank you very much. It improved my condition of living, I will never forget you. I am married and have a son two years and four months. I live in Kigali city, District of Gasabo. I am not sure of you being a man or a woman because of your names (Please bear with me it looks strange).” ~Joseline

“My family is very happy because they have seen that I am producing something very important and I have also come to realize that I can do something very important and useful to me and my family which can help us to a better life.” ~ Xaveline