In Rwanda, For Rwanda-
During the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Hutu extremists in three months killed more than 1,000,000 minority Tutsis and Hutu moderates ~ over 10% of the population. Innocent victims were slaughtered at a rate of every 60 seconds of each day for 100 days. This is equivalent to more than three 9/11 attacks per day.
Hutu militia raped Tutsi women in a deliberate plan to use AIDS as a weapon that could go on killing long after they had murdered their other victims. An average of 4 women were violently sexually assaulted, most of them by HIV- positive men, every minute of each day for 100 consecutive days. An estimated 11% of all females living in Rwanda at the time of the genocide were victims of concerted rape campaign.
As a direct result of the death and violence in 1994 there are more than 600,000 widows living in Rwanda. The population in Rwanda is estimated at close to 9 million people of whom 4.2 million are children. 700,000 are orphans and 27,000 of those are living with HIV.
Currently, 34% of all households in Rwanda are headed by women and 42,000 are headed by children. More than 67% of the women who were raped in 1994 during the genocide are now facing death from AIDS.
Because of these facts and God’s leading, we are in Rwanda and for Rwanda. We currently work with ten women who were nominated by their churches as being in the greatest of need. Through these ten women and two projects we are impacting over 80 individuals and helping to bring restoration, transformation and hope.
We invite you to learn more about our projects and meet the women who's lives have been transformed.