Solace Ministries Rwanda

1. This is Catherine

2. • Catherine is a survivor from the genocide
• She lost her husband and children
• Instead, she now looks after others who were
orphaned
• 10 people live in her house
• She says that life is very hard
• She is selfless
• She trusts that God will ‘heal her house’

3. Catherine lives in a house with a
leaking roof.....

4. .......with broken windows......

5. ....with crumbling internal walls...

6. .....with crumbling external walls...

7. .....with a broken door that doesn’t
close properly...

8. ....with basic facilities...
(2 adults sleep in this bed)

9. Catherine could have had this house....

10. ....or one of these houses....

11. ....in Dumbarton Village....

12. ...but instead she stepped aside so that Colette and
Pelagia whose houses were falling down could each
have a new house...

13. ....and allowed Veneranda to have the other house as
she and her children had nowhere to stay!!

14. We believe that Catherine should live
in a ‘healed house’
• She has taken on board the wishes of those
who live with her and they have chosen to
remain in their current community in a
separate area of Jari
• Let us see God at work in raising the money
and let Catherine and her extended family
experience God’s goodness, grace and
provision first hand
• It will cost £3500 to fully repair her house

15. Let this be the new Catherine...

16. Murakoze cyane!!
(Thank you!)