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.
The final week of May 2018 saw our Rwandan partner GNPDR, headed by Pius Nyakayiro, co-hosting an International Conference on Human Rights and Prison Reform in Kigali alongside NGO International CURE. The conference explored reconciliation, restorative justice practices, alternatives to imprisonment, and other issues in the criminal justice context, while …
The children at the GNPDR Catch Up school finally have water on tap, thanks to the generosity of some UK donors who raised enough money for a rainwater harvesting system to be set up. Until now there has been no reliable running water at, or near the school, and staff …
