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Shoebox Appeal 2011
Bring a little smile to a face!
Hope Survivors Foundation is planning Flip Flop Shoebox Appeal this year to send shoebox packages to Rwanda. It is a fun way to help very poor children to experience a little joy in their lives.
This year marks the 17th anniversary of the Rwandan Tutsi genocide. Around 300,000 children survived the genocide in Rwanda. The majority of these orphans now live in desperate poverty and lack of proper shelter, education and the means to earn money to buy basic necessities such as medicine and food. Beneficiaries will include orphans and impoverished children.
Many are teenagers who have been left with not adult figure to love or guide them. These orphans are left… Continue reading
HSF launches updated website
HSF is pleased to announce the launch of its updated website. The new updated website gives greater focus to our work and our mission. Moreover, the new website has been built by survivors themselves in such a way that we can update it, allowing us to be more efficient in the administration of our work.
The new website has been built by survivors themselves in such a way that we can update it, allowing us to be more efficient in the administration of our work.
Moreover, HSF has subscribed with Virgin Money Giving Fundraising company. Virgin Money Giving will promote and collect Gift Aid to donors and make it easy for HSF to add it to their donation. In addition,… Continue reading
Hampton Students to honour Rwandan Genocide Victims
To mark the 15th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda students at Hampton School would like to ask you ‘Why should we remember?’ the terrible events in Rwanda in 1994 that claimed the lives of more than 1 million Tutsis in 100 days of killing.
The students aim to collect as many responses as possible and will pass each one onto survivors of the genocide to prove that they are not forgotten. Our aim is to collect 10,000 answers … one for every hundred men, women and children who were murdered in 1994.
The project will result in a sequel to the short book published by the students in 2008 which included interviews with genocide survivors and reflections from over fifty personalities… Continue reading
