Student Programs

With an eye on global leadership, these programs are created to provide students with heart-centered opportunities to experience being service-minded and to create connections with other children around the world. These programs emphasize that service is about giving and receiving. When students care about other children around the world and show that caring through giving of themselves, they receive the many benefits of improved self-esteem, a sense of accomplishment, the knowing that they have made a difference in someone’s life who has suffered great trauma and tragedy, increased creativity and sense of fulfillment as they collaborate on co-creating meaningful ways of giving. In turn, our orphans experience the hope and dignity that they are seen and heard and that they matter. They have an opportunity to give of themselves through our train the trainer program, participating in our film project, and connecting with US students through letter writing and the Peace Quilt Project.

Children2Children Club
The focus of this program is kids helping kids through projects that create a bridge of hope and healing. We are developing a heart-centered leadership program with structured curriculum that can be duplicated in classrooms across the country. Students raise funds earmarked for specific objectives (orphan school fees, food, fresh water tanks and electricity) by creating fundraising vehicles (bake sales, selling pens made in woodshop, creating a peace quilt, etc. We are currently working with the Pacific Grove Middle School in California to implement the curriculum and to connect US students with Rwandan orphans for mutual support, inspiration and cross cultural education.