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Share your Christmas Joy with Kids at SOS Rwanda

Well-wishers have started to celebrate their Christmas bliss by gifting and providing financial support to children who live in SOS Rwanda-Kigali Children’s Village, TOPAFRICANEWS reports.

This Wednesday was the joyful moment for the orphaned children and their mothers at SOS Kigali Village as Kigali Marriott Hotel staff join them for Christmas gifts and other financial support to the village which accommodates about 77 orphans.

In August this Year Kigali Marriott Hotel signed partnership agreements with SOS Rwanda where the Hotel will donate about Rwf 10 million to support SOS Rwanda in Children caring activities.

On Wednesday 28th November, 2018, the Hotel handed over to SOS Rwanda a sum of Rwf 1,097, 500 accompanied by Christmas Gifts for children as part of the continuous partnership between Kigali Marriott Hotel and SOS Children’s Village Rwanda chapter.

Speaking at the event, Claudine Uwamahoro on behalf of the Marriott Hotel staff said “Today we are handing over this amount as part of Rwf 10 million pledged to SOS Rwanda in August.”

“As you might be aware in August this year Kigali Marriott signed partnership agreements with SOS Children’s village where we will give support of Rwf 10 million

“Since then we have done fundraising by selling T-Shirts to various people and we have made other contributions as Marriott staff and as a results we managed to collect Rwf 1,097, 500 and $ 39 that we are handing over today,” Uwamahoro added

She reminded that the fundraising will continue until they reach the total pledge.

Speaking on behalf of SOS Rwanda, Aimee Muziranenge expressed gratitude to Kigali Marriott Hotel adding that “This is a very good initiative that will help our children to live a better life.”

Muziranenge took the occasion to call on whoever able to support SOS Rwanda to enable the organization keeps its pace towards the bright future of children.

Also Ntabana Louis, the Director of SOS Kigali Village noted that taking care of children is not an easy task.

“As you can see, here we have families made of 77 children and 15 mothers. Explicitly each family has about 3 three children and we allocate Rwf 1000 to each children for daily consumption (food),” Ntabana explained.

Ntabana said that SOS has been doing campaigns to raise funds in order to be able to take care of the children.

As time keeps going on, he said, “People are starting to feel their role by helping us to meet our goals.”

“It is against this background also that the Kigali Marriott Hotel is partnering with us and today you have seen that they donated money and other Christmas gifts for children.

“This is every good initiative and we are very happy for that and we call up on whoever felt the spirit of helping to come and partner with us as we strive for the better future of our children,” He concluded.

On behalf of the mothers, Mama Juliette Nyiransabimana narrated how they take care of children until they reach to the level of self-help age.

“We take care of our children from babyhood to adulthood. We enable them to study up to the level they want,” Nyiransabimana explained.

“I take this opportunity to request well-wishers who are able, to come and support our role of taking care of these babies that God has given us,” She added.

To date, SOS Rwanda Children’s Villages provides direct care and services to 635 children and young people.

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