Good News of Peace and Development for Rwanda is a faith-based organization whose vision is to equip, educate and thus empower specific groups of marginalized Rwandan people to lift themselves out of poverty, and to promote and uphold peace within the Rwandan communities that it serves.
It does this through Community-based programmes that include a Literacy Program for adults, a Catch-Up Education Program for young people who were living on the streets, and the ‘Hope Project’ that supports genocide widows.
GNPDR also has a strong prison ministry that reaches into prisons across Rwanda, and delivers both educational and spiritual support to the prisoners. An essential component of all the GNPDR programmes is that they are done in ways that bring honour to God.
Ruhuha sector is in the Rwandan district of Bugesera, Eastern province. It is a very poor part of the country, where people predominantly live a subsistence lifestyle, eeking out a living in an area where water is in short supply. But, all that is changing, thanks to the input of …
1,000 Mercy Mattresses were recently distributed to prisoners in 4 of the Rwandan prisons that GNPDR works in. Made by genocide victims, who are given employment as part of this project, the mattresses have a Biblical message of hope and forgiveness incorporated into the mattress material, so enabling the message …
