For Gitwe inhabitants, giving to poor people has a place among key Rwandan values that promote good citizenship. The ISPG (Institut Superieur Pedagogique de Gitwe) family has launched a lasting program to gather different items to provide to seriously needy people in the area.
It is in this contest that the school collected items worthy 1.500.000 RwF given to locally selected persons to help them survive and improve living conditions during the event.
The program started form 23 ,August and ended Yesterday,27th during Giving event that took place at Gitwe.
The program intends to promote the culture of searching on home grown solutions to specific problems Rwandans face.
Urayeneza Gerard, the legal representative of the ISPG ,told Umuseke reporter that one of the key missions of any school is to help local people overcome endemic poverty.
Mr Maurice Pollin ,a Belgian, living in Rwanda is the one who presided the ‘Giving Day’.
The package included shoes, school learning tools and clothes for children in order to help them learn better. Students among whom secondary school students(38 boys and 30 girls) received the gifts and tanked the providers .
Among different gifts include wheelchairs to handicapped child with other related articles.
Women attended the vaccination day for their children received a first aid for their kids such as clothes.
Mr Maurice Pollin said that giving means more heartfelt feeling rather than wealthy.
Mr Rwema Justin,the local leader in the Karambo cell,where the event took expressed his gratitude towards this Good samaritanian initiative being a proof of close partnership and positive neighborhood between ISPG and local administration authorities.
NTIHINYUZWA Jean Damascene
UM– USEKE.RW/Muhanga
