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Stories and updates from Hazel's Footprints Trust, our Partner Schools, Educational Projects and Footprinters (volunteers).
First bricks laid for new classroom at Tubarere School, Rwanda
Wed, 9th Oct 2024In June 2024, Hazel’s Footprints Trust provided a grant for £9,086 to Aid for Education to build a new classroom at Tubarere Nursery and Primary School. The foundations have been…
Girls’ Space, Rwanda: 2023 graduates
Mon, 9th Oct 2023In 2021, we agreed to support a fabulous vocational training programme for 16/17 year old girls in Rwanda. The £6,000 grant covered the salaries of three staff members who run…
Jem Warner: Final Report from Rwanda
Tue, 12th Jul 2016After finishing at the Excel school, I then started working at the Rwamagana Protestant school, a secondary school. Here I taught Maths to slightly older students, whose English was very…
Jem Warner: Rwanda Report April 2016
Sun, 8th May 2016I’ve come to appreciate a few more of the quirks of Rwandan life. People insist – with rigour – that there is ‘no problem’, when sometimes there quite clearly is.…
Jem Warner: First Report from Rwanda
Tue, 2nd Feb 2016Rwanda is a country rich in culture and my time here so far has been incredible, with the bustle of Kigali, the tranquility of the countryside and the ubiquitous banana…
Jem Warner: Report ahead of Rwanda
Sun, 29th Nov 2015This is my first Footprinter report as I prepare to set off for Rwanda to teach Maths and English to disadvantaged children. My name is Jem, I am 18 and I…