Heart Wrenching
on Annemiek Miller (Rwanda), 15/Sep/2006 16:58, 34 days ago
Heart wrenching !How can I continue to be so deeply affected by these students sent home yet again this week, in third term, to go get their« Minerval » Minerval are the school fees and school ends the first week of November. If you haven’t paid, you do not get your year. If you haven’t paid you cannot come into class and you cannot eat in the cafeteria. Students are being forced home. The “gérant” tells me that students aresent home to fetch their parents and bring them so they can explain the family’s dismal financial situation. At this time, 6 weeks before the year end, 200 of the 864 students at the high school behind my home, have been sent home. Thirty-two of 125 6th form students who write an all-importantNational Exam in November, have also been sent home. If in my small school there are 200 out of school looking for money, how many students are there in all of Rwanda roaming around the countryside? I do not know, but it must be significant!!If you have been reading my blog, you know I support some students myself and that my church is now taking care of another 6! Well, every day I am stopped by students in the street who are looking for help:one story sadder than the other.As I eat my lunch, I know they are wandering about not getting any food. I have to harden myself.