The Rwandan Orphans Project

Dear Boarding Community,

As you all know Winter Holidays are coming soon. You will be celebrating Christmas, New Years, Hanukkah in the comfort of your home surrounded by friends and family. At this point it feels so normal to us that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, this luxury is not available for a lot of young kids out there. We were amazed by your participation in the Most Generous Boarding School competition where we managed to raise $20'000 for the School of Hope in Guatemala. This time, let's take it to another level.

We are starting a fundraiser for the Rwandan Orphans Project charity.
They run the Imizi Children’s Center in Rwanda. At Imizi they provide:

- Housing for up to 100 former street children and orphans
- Completely free primary education to more than 100 children from the community’s poorest families
- Workshops and training for parents and adults from around the area.
 
Money collected would go directly to the ROP which would allow them to pay for future school tuition, buy food and clothing for the children in the orphanage and Christmas presents!
 
We are announcing a new competition - Most Generous Santa. The rules are simple and familiar to you:

Donate ANY AMOUNT to ROP through this GofundMe page.
You can remain anonymous,  put the name of the boarding school you go/went to if you’d like to rep it or your real name
 
The person that will donate the most in total (multiple donations are allowed and very encouraged) will be declared as the Most Generous Santa. Please be ready to provide proof of your donations either through bank payment confirmations or screenshots from GoFundMe.

We would like to emphasize once again that ALL donations are encouraged, regardless of size. Rwandan Orphans Project will put them to good use!

In partnership with Daimondi

More info at @we_are_almost_like_you

All kids deserve healthcare, don't they?

In Rwanda tens of thousands of children from incredibly impoverished families have no access to healthcare, despite the cost of insurance being only $10 per child per year. One terrible consequence of this is that these children miss out on attending school due to even the most simple of illnesses or injuries, wasting their potential and ruining their chances of escaping poverty.

We at Duke Concept want to help these children, and on June 8th we are hosting our first annual Regal Charity Ball to raise funds that will provide vital healthcare access to more than a thousand children in Rwanda. To achieve this goal we have partnered with our friends at the Rwandan Orphans Project. ROP has been providing housing, education and healthcare to hundreds of vulnerable children since 2008, so we know they will make excellent use of the funds we raise to help as many children as possible.

We've set an ambitious goal to raise $200,000 for these children, but we know that the designers, artists, and performers attending our Ball, as well as our generous guests and VIPs, will rise to this inspiring cause and help us improve the lives of thousands of Africa's poorest children.

If you'd like to know about our Regal Charity Ball or learn more about how you can help us reach our goal, please contact us at [email redacted]

The Rwandan Orphan Project (ROP) is an organization that gives street kids, and local children from poor families free education along with a place to call home. These students range from all ages and come from very unique and challenging backgrounds. However at Imizi Primary School they are all equal. The students  receive the same education, same support, and for the boading school students, go on to receive a secondary education in Rwanda. 

Many of the students spend most of the time on the campus with limited facilities. This page is to raise money to build a playground for the students.

For more imformation about Rwandan Orphans Project follow the link below.
https://rwandanorphansproject.org https://www.facebook.com/RopRwanda/