ACCOMPLISHED In 2008      

In Rwanda:

• Functioning as an independent organization after becoming registered with the Rwandan Government as a Non-Government Organization (NGO)
• Established an AOH office in Rwanda
• AOH has hired six employees
• Feeding of AOH children lunch 7 days/week
• Supporting students with school fees and materials
• Special Christmas for the AOH children in Rwanda
• Monthly salaries of 2 nurses and security guard at the CEER Church clinic that we partner with
• Nutritional support for a child in the CEER church who is HIV positive
• Nutritional and Medical Support for an HIV positive mother
• More structured follow up with the children’s progress in school and home life
• Administrative time spent in Rwanda by AOH leaders

In Congo:

• School fees and supplies for 41 children (mostly orphans) in Congo 
• Lunch 5 days/week for 30 children (mostly orphans) in Congo

We offer God all the praise!

2008 TRIP REPORT

   * Anchor of Hope became registered with the Rwandan Government as an International Non-Government Organization.

  * AOH stepped out from the Ligue, which is a Christian organization through which the children were being supported with lunch under the "umbrella" of their children's ministry.

   * Anchor of Hope established an office and hired staff to begin ministry independently.

   *An"open house" was held to transition to the new office with the kids and their parents.

   * AOH began feeding and ministering to the children out of the new office, taking full responibility for all the ministry to the children.

  *  An outside kitchen was built where the food will be cooked and money in charcoal can be saved.   (Food is prepared outside on cookers with charcoal.)

   * Much time was spent in administrative paperwork and bookkeeping organization with our Rwandan Representative.

   *While in Congo, we had the opportunity to visit a refugee camp and visualize the tragic conditions of life there as well as discuss with Beyond the Bridge possible opportunities for assistance.

   * The trip was also one of accountability:

            ~Sarah was able to visit all of the schools that our Anchor of Hope kids attend except one which is very rural.....Vincent follows up with this school and the others routinely.

           ~Heather and Sarah had a meeting with the pastors of the CEER church about our partnership with them and visited the clinic that we contribute to financially. 

           ~Sarah took a trip to Congo with Heather to visit a ministry that Anchor of Hope supports-Beyond the Bridge Ministry led by Martin, with whom many of you are familiar.