Imana Kids: Orphan Care Ministry

By connecting children with sponsors who will pray for and financially support their education, we strive to foster relationships and equip the children with essential tools to establish themselves and their families in the the future. By sponsoring a child, many of the child's basic needs are met - clean water, food, shelter, clothing. Each sponsor receives report cards, updates, and letters from their sponsored child, and has the opportunity to write letters and send small gifts in return. But what we've learned is that that's just the beginning. Because once a child is known by name, once there is a story behind the face, everything can transform.

As we have grown as an organization, we have become convicted that the only way to end the cycle of the orphan is by healing from the inside out. This looks like trauma informed classrooms and foster families. Our students are being cared for and educated by adults dedicated to see their behaviors as communication for the underlying fears, grief and needs.

We are proud to share that we now have our own trauma informed and sensory friendly primary school in Kigali, Rwanda, with Phase Two, a library and health/dental clinic up next.