Do What You Can Do - Part 2

Scholarship Fund Selection Process
As I shared in earlier posts, Pastor Nathan and his assistant let it be known there was a scholarship fund and women were interested in applying to set up a meeting. Thirteen women were ultimately vetted as those Pastor Nathan believed had potential. Pastor Nathan is a godly man who has since been promoted to Bishop of another area but he is invested in the lives of these women along with a boarding school called Star School that he remains connected.


Meeting the Recipients
Cyrus was in Rwanda a few weeks ago and was able to meet with 9 of the women who were ready to move forward with the scholarship fund. As I shared in the last post, it has been determined that although there is a willingness and a desire, some of the women do not have enough schooling. Our focus will be on helping them find a sustainable means of income to meet their current needs.

One of the women who will be attending school was sharing issues with her eyesight so part of the funds will be used to get her to an eye doctor and get glasses. I am committed to each of these women having what they need to succeed using their country to supply the resources to allow the right economic cycle.

Below is Cyrus's report along with the pictures of each of these precious women. I was reminded as I was doing my memory work in James 2 today when James says " Did not the Lord God choose the poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and inherit the kingdom he promises to those who love him?". These women are indeed rich in ways we will never be. I pray that as we love on them through prayer and gifts that we too will gain faith in what God can do when we trust him to "do what we can do". In God's economy I continue to see it is not the economy of this world. Just as he took 5 loaves and 2 fish to feed over 5000 people, he can take our funds to achieve far beyond what we could hope or expect for these women and their children.

I encourage you to print this out and put it in your prayer journal, mirror or wherever that you can lift these women up in prayer. As you can see school doesn't always solve their concerns, some comment below that they still have to figure out how to make money while going to school or to cover an emergency. I know our God is the great provider and I encourage you to pray in anticipation of how He will provide for the needs of these women.

Profiles of the women from the BMTC (Blessed Mango Tree Church)


Rachel Uwamahoro


Rachel is 25 years old. She is married and has a 5 year-old son. Her husband is an auto-mechanic. He is not saved and is very abusive. The money that he earns is always spent on alcohol and Rachel does not get to see any of it. She struggles to support herself as well as her son. Rachel has finished HS but was never able to go to college because of the lack of funding. She got married very young because her parents have been killed during the genocide. The only way she knew to receive any type o support was to get married. Her desire is to go to college to study management. She is willing to enroll in the vocational school in order to learn a trade.


Dorcella Mukandamge

Dorcella was born in 1975. She had 7 children but has lost 2 children from illness because she could not afford the medical treatment for them. She now has 5 children alive (2 boys and 3 girls). The oldest child is 12 years old and the youngest is 3 years-old. Dorcella would like to enroll in the tailoring at the Anglican vocational school. Her challenge is to find a way to support her family while in school.

Veranda Mukagatare

Veranda is 48 years old. She is a widow and does odd jobs in and near town in order to support her family. She also works for a coffee manufacturing plant. Some days she is hired other days she is not. This job is unreliable. She would like to find something that is reliable in order to me her parental obligations. Her desire is to have a livestock pan so that she can raise rabbits.

Goretti Hategekimana


Goretti is a 32 year old mother of 6 children, 3 boys and 3 girls. She never went to school and because of the lack of education; it is extremely difficult for her to get a decent paying job. She has been widow for a year and half. She own a small property that she wants to put to good use. She wants to raise some produce.

Juliette Nyirandikubwimana

Juliette’s main challenge is housing as well as the school tuition for the vocational school. She enjoys learning how to sew, but cannot afford to be in school and earn money at the same time to support her children.


Matilda Nyirahabineza

Matilda is a 25 year old mother of 2 children. She has been a faithful member of the BMTC. Her husband is uneducated and works odd jobs. There are times that he can get jobs; other times he can’t find any job which makes it very difficult to support the family. It is her desire to enter the vocational school at the Anglican Church.


Jacqueline Mukantwari


Jacqueline is a 32 year-old mother of 5 children. Her first born died because of the lack of funds to pay for medical services. Her husband has abandoned her with 5 children, and it has been extremely difficult making hands meet. As she was sharing with, she was sobbing uncontrollably. She explained that every month it is the same struggle, just making the payment of the rent and at times her children go without food. She has to rely on the good will of neighbors. Jacqueline noted that she too has never attended school. As much as she wants to attend the vocational school, she can’t read or write. Her hope is that, through the BMTC she will be able to get a reliable source of income to be able to support her 5 young children. When the children get sick, she cannot even afford to take them to the doctor. That is why 2 of her children have died.
She sells fire woods and does odd jobs to earn money to support her family. She would like to be able to someday go to school even as an adult to be able to read and write. She hopes to raise livestock.

Diane Mujawamariya



Diane is a 33 years-old widow and mother of 2 boys. Her desire is to get into the catering school at the Anglican Church. While attending school, she would like raise some goats in case of an emergency while she is in school.

Alianne Umurerwa


Alianne is a 22 year-old orphan and mother of one year old Esther. She has completed 6th grade. She could not go further in school because she had no one to pay for her school fees. That is why she got married very young in the hope of having someone to support her. She wants to be enrolled in the tailoring program at the Anglican Church in order to earn a stable income. She too has been attending the BMTC since this church has been established.