The
Christmas season is a good time to start thinking about helping other people.
This includes providing food, clothing and toys for families to enable them to
experience the joy of the Christmas Season. Giving warmth, love and hope.
That’s what Christmas should be all about. A time to share our good fortune
with our neighbours in need across the world.
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| Above, right, road leading to Home of Hope |
It is in that essence that Christus Vincit Choir organized
a charity act to help and share Christmas joy with the weary at the
missionaries of charity “Mother Therese Home of Hope, near St
Famille Parish in Kigali. Mother Teresa was born in Yugoslavia and at a young age felt compelled to care for the sick and
poor. When she was eighteen years old, she left home and joined the Loreto
sisters, an Irish community of nuns, working in India. After teaching at St.
Mary's High School, she left the mission to work in the slums of Calcutta. In
1950, she received permission from the Holy See to establish her own order,
called the Missionaries of Charity. The aim of the order was to care for
orphans and to establish homes for people suffering from leprosy, HIV/AIDS and
tuberculosis. The Missionaries of Charity began to expand, with missions being
established world-wide. In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded with the Nobel Peace
Prize and in 1980, she received the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honor in
India for her humanitarian work. At present, the Missionaries of Charity
operate in 120 countries with 600 missions.
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| shared also a drink |
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| vincits sang a number of songs with them together |
Christus Vincit Choir
had fun with everyone at the Home of Hope where they sang a number of songs
together, prayed and shared a drink together. They also provided with a number
of basic materials needed like food, clothes, hygienic materials and most of
Christmas joy. The home of hope has children from the age of newborn to the
very elderly who have no family to take care of them. Many of the children are HIV positive, handicapped
or simply children that parents have left at the orphanage gates because the
parents are too poor to provide food or medicine for them. The Sisters have
never turned anyone away and they somehow find room.
“The government of Rwanda has put forth a mandate to have all
orphanages shut down in the next few years. The goal being that all the
orphaned children would be adopted and the country can show that they are
capable of taking care of all their children. It is a lofty goal, and many
doubt that it will come to fruition, but steps are being taken in that
direction. Many adoptions have been happening recently, and orphanages don’t
have as many babies and children as you might think, but the children they do
have (at least at the Missionaries of Charity) are special needs.
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| After sharing the Christmas Joy Vincits took a group photo |
Source: - DG in Rwanda
- CVC IT Team
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