ETO Gitarama Project: Make a Difference (MAD) Project ER :
Education Rwanda In the summers of 2004,2005 & 2006, a group of
youth and adults traveled to Gatenga,Rwanda in Africa on a
service project that involved working directly with several
villages to primarily address three main issues: - The training
of teachers in the development of moral/educational programs for
children, teaching them about unity and peace and how to work
with children to apply these and other virtues in their daily
lives. - Working with village elders in the development of
agricultural co-ops to assist in the production of food for
purposes of more adequately feeding their families and also for
providing a means for making a living. - Teaching mothers and a
few interested fathers about health and nutrition and how to
provide inexpensive balanced meals for their families and steps
to take to prevent disease. In one village where the group was
stationed there is an elementary school with over 800 students.
Each small classroom is crowde