OUR STORY

 

Rwanda is a country roughly the size of New Hampshire, United States of America with a population reaching over eleven million.

 

In 1994 Rwanda tore at the hands of a violent Genocide. This inhuman devastation claimed over 800,000 lives in just one hundred days. The country and its’ people were left broken and traumatized. 

 

Over twenty years since,

 

• Economic Growth

• Societal Development 

• Humanitarian Reconciliation (Between the Hutus & Tutsis)

 

These things have radically changed Rwanda. However, nearly HALF of the population still lives in poverty. 

 

The Anglican Church of Rwanda has been on a journey–walking with Rwandans through pain, poverty and violence into an increasingly hopeful future. Over the past fifteen years the relationship between Anglicans in the USA and Rwanda has borne great fruit, with many local churches and parishes choosing to partner.

 

In 2014 Archbishop Rwaje called ACNA priest Rev. Brandon Walsh to come and be his Ambassador and to provide strategic leadership for his fledgling diocese. Hope on a Thousand Hills is the fruit of Archbishop’s vision: a mutual partnership between Americans and Rwandans to address our individual and mutual poverties.