Volunteer or Visitor… which are you? A visitor is someone who comes to visit Kivumu, to enjoy the experience of taking in the sights and sounds of Rwanda from a village prospective. A visitor arranges their own time schedule but still respects the timetable of the friary for all meals, prayer times and arrivals and departures. A visitor stays at...

Saturday, June 23rd was a special day in Kivumu. We celebrated the school day in remembrance and in celebration of the feast day of Saint Vjeko and after which our school was named. The day started with the morning Mass in the big compound of the school, officiated by Fra Aloys who is Parish Priest at Kivumu Parish and Father Kimenyi...

Every time I leave Canada for Rwanda to work at Padri Vjeko Centre, I ask myself, “what shall I do this time?” And every time I arrive to find a multitude of tasks waiting for me. This time was no exception. Let me see if I can list a few of them... First of all there is the Tailoring section of the school. We now have one hundred and ninety-seven tailoring...

This is a remarkable story about a vehicle with a real history…… If this sturdy, well built, well-loved Mercedes Benz GD290 could speak, it would be a story to be told time and time again... Let me see if I can do the story justice... As some of you may recall, in 1994 a horrific genocide took place in Rwanda, a tiny country in the heart of Africa...

Cedrique Musigisha is a young boy, who lives in the tiny village of Musengo, close to Padri Vjeko School. Cedrique has been blind since three years of age when he somehow lost his sight. He was taken to a hospital where an operation was unsuccessfully performed. Now sponsored by the Franciscans of Kivumu, he attends a school in Kibeho...