Community Day

Once a month the entire country of Rwanda  participates in a "Community Day." Everyone reports to their local chairman or mayor to receive their assignments and everyone works together to make Rwanda a cleaner and more beautiful place.

If you have ever traveled in Eastern Africa you immediately can see the difference. There is no trash to be seen. The landscaping is beautiful and in general there is a spirit of unity and togetherness that pervades a community once torn apart by genocide.

 At ARCC we are trying to create our own "Community Day!" Every Friday staff and students gather together to receive their assignments on the farm, landscaping, cleaning classrooms/ kitchen or working on construction projects around the campus. 

Our hope is that it will create a deep sense of community and give opportunity to strength relationships between staff and students as we labor together. We also hope that one day our students will return to the campus and be able to share with their children, "I planted that tree" "I helped build that building" and on and on.

It is amazing was can happen when everyone works together. Today the students gathered unused building blocks which will be used to build an external wall around the campus and a sidewalk through the courtyard. The savings of reusing this bricks for these two projects alone will save the school over $10,000! 

 

When the future of Africa is discussed the outlook is beak due to the lack of financial resources. But from where we are standing their is great hope due to the tremendous amount of natural resource and human resource. And as our community is transformed we have no doubt that our students will be prepared to go out and transform their communities!