WIHERANWA Community Healing Fundraising Project
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Hello Everyone!!!!
We are second-year MFT students at the University of San Francisco (South Bay Campus) raising funds to support a community mental health organization. We have had the opportunity to work and collaborate with the UBU WIHERANWA Community, a mental health healing program that provides numerous services that support members of Rwanda. Our class has had the privilege to learn how their organization provides services to people that have experienced and witnessed the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, and how they have developed their current healing practices that work for their community members today.
We reached out to the community members through Jean Pierre Ndagijimana (UBU) and asked them where they felt the raised funds would best be allocated and were able to get a few quotes from some of their members:
“It is an extremely bad situation when one is both emotionally and financially stuck and unable to afford basic needs. It is almost impossible to heal when everything else in life is down and you do not have food.”
“The journey for healing does not stop with financial stability. We want to combine both. If we can find some resources to make it work, we can continue producing more healing materials and engage more in reaching out to other people and we can be paid for doing that work.”
As a cohort, our goal is to gather $750+ so that the community has the financial resources to support their needs and programs. The money will go towards the UBU WIHERANWA Community and will be allocated toward existing services and programs as well as provide employment towards the Rwandan mental health providers. For example, $5 can fund a year of health insurance for one person in Rwanda.
If you want to learn more, you can check out the link to the organization:
http://wiheranwa.com/en/uncategorized/the-worst-failure-is-self-concealment-justines-testimony/
We are second-year MFT students at the University of San Francisco (South Bay Campus) raising funds to support a community mental health organization. We have had the opportunity to work and collaborate with the UBU WIHERANWA Community, a mental health healing program that provides numerous services that support members of Rwanda. Our class has had the privilege to learn how their organization provides services to people that have experienced and witnessed the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, and how they have developed their current healing practices that work for their community members today.
We reached out to the community members through Jean Pierre Ndagijimana (UBU) and asked them where they felt the raised funds would best be allocated and were able to get a few quotes from some of their members:
“It is an extremely bad situation when one is both emotionally and financially stuck and unable to afford basic needs. It is almost impossible to heal when everything else in life is down and you do not have food.”
“The journey for healing does not stop with financial stability. We want to combine both. If we can find some resources to make it work, we can continue producing more healing materials and engage more in reaching out to other people and we can be paid for doing that work.”
As a cohort, our goal is to gather $750+ so that the community has the financial resources to support their needs and programs. The money will go towards the UBU WIHERANWA Community and will be allocated toward existing services and programs as well as provide employment towards the Rwandan mental health providers. For example, $5 can fund a year of health insurance for one person in Rwanda.
If you want to learn more, you can check out the link to the organization:
http://wiheranwa.com/en/uncategorized/the-worst-failure-is-self-concealment-justines-testimony/
Co-organizers (6)
Nuredin Indris
Organizer
San Jose, CA
Jean Pierre Ndagijimana
Beneficiary
Danelle Arritt
Co-organizer
Sandra Sencion
Co-organizer
Andria Rodriguez
Co-organizer
Cynthia Martell
Co-organizer