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Amani Vocational School - Sponsor a Classroom!
In the summer of 2008, Amani Africa will begin construction on a new vocational school in rural Rwanda. Through all of our work with vulnerable youth in East Africa, we realized that many development efforts still do not provide innovative and sustainable solutions to a critical problem: the lack of educational and economic opportunities for teenage drop-outs and genocide survivors.
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Amani Africa
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Amani is the Swahili word for Peace.
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Based in: Tampa, Florida
Year founded: 2006
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Project Info
Quality education is clearly vital to ending the cycle of poverty. But considering the acute obstacles and social circumstances that the youth of Rwanda face in many aspects of their lives, simply providing access to the conventional education system in Rwanda does not sufficiently address or acknowledge the full scope of the problem. It is not enough to give teenagers the chance to attend primary and secondary school if we don't also examine ways to help them succeed after they've graduated. Many of these students that attend school are also the heads of the households and take care of younger siblings; they need a way to provide a stable income and life for their siblings. Their education will not do them much good in the long term if they do not have opportunities to apply their newly acquired knowledge and skills in the workplace.
We’ve chosen to focus on vocational training because the youth with whom we work need skills that are directly applicable to the work environment. Many of the Amani participants were forced to abandon their education at an early age and therefore lack the basic reading and writing skills that they will need for nearly any type of future employment. For some children, this vocational training may be the highest level of education that they receive; others may find that they excel in an educational environment and choose to expand upon their vocational skills by furthering their schooling in an academic setting. In any case, the Amani Africa Vocational School will equip students with practical and marketable skills that will help them get jobs in the local economy or start their own businesses.
The Amani Africa Vocational School will offer a curriculum that will help position students to respond to the opportunities unique to their community. In recent years, Rwanda has emerged as a destination for international investors and tourists. Therefore, the Amani vocational curriculum will include training in culinary arts, tailoring, hotel and tourism management, computers, and financial management.
Location: Nyamata
The small town of Nyamata is located about 30 minutes from the Rwandan capital of Kigali. During the 1994 genocide Hutu militias targeted their violence on the Nyamata region, killing an estimated 90 percent of the Tutsi population. With the combined devastation caused by the genocide and the ravages of HIV/AIDS and malaria, Nyamata now has one of the highest concentrations of orphans and child-headed households in the country.
Nearly half of the population in the Nyamata region of Rwanda lives in extreme poverty. Many of the teenagers leave Nyamata to beg and live on the streets on Kigali. The lucky ones find jobs working as bicycle taxis, making $1 a day. Amani has organized programs in Nyamata for the past few years, and we know that these teenagers will thrive if given the opportunity to attend school and receive training. Our work has proven this to be true.
Now, the local government in Nyamata has donated 25 acres of land near to the site of the new international airport, which will be completed in 2010.
This school will be an incredible asset to the people of Rwanda. By helping to sponsor a classroom, you directly improve and help the lives of these children. Sponsoring a classroom will allow these disenfranchised youths a unique opportunity to learn and to have access to jobs after their schooling.
Every little bit helps. By donating just $1, you will have a positive effect on children's lives. By helping to sponsor a classroom in the new Amani Vocational School, you will be effectively help end the cycles of violence and poverty in Rwanda.
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