An important week is coming up in November 2024.
Paying attention to a newscaster today on the Internet, I discovered that there is a week set aside each year as International Education Week. In November 2023, the week’s theme was celebrating international partnerships. This was welcome news to me.
The news story was about a person raising money for desks and donating them to a classroom for students who did not have desks to write on.
You, Urukundo’s dear friends, have gone far beyond that gift. Since Urukundo Learning Center had its beginning, you have supplied more than 1,000 desks and have built the classrooms for the desks. More than 1,000 children have benefited. That was just the beginning. Because of you, 41 qualified teachers have jobs. The school has textbooks, a playground, sports equipment, a library with books, educational toys, computers and a computer lab. I take this opportunity to say thank you.
International Education Week this year is Nov. 18-22. Urukundo’s goal for 2024-25 is to construct a gymnasium. It means dreaming a new dream and setting a new goal. We would have two years to raise funds toward that construction in the hope we could break ground on Nov. 18, celebrating this year’s International Education Week.
Are you up to the challenge?
In Rwanda, an indoor gym where sports can be played no matter what the weather is a dream and for the Urukundo Foundation a new goal.