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Help us rebuild Shyira Maternity Hospital.

£300,000 will rebuild Shyira hospital's maternity building. If you would like to help save lives in and around Shyira you can:

Donate by card using MyDonate

Donate £5 by texting SHYR01 £5 to 70070 (UK only)

Donate £10 by texting SHYR01 £10 to 70070 (UK only)

More information is available here:

Other giving opportunities using MyDonate are:

For Maternity services: Liverpool Santa Dash

Supporting the very remote Parish of Butaka

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Would you like to Champion the cause of the Shyira Trust? If so please consider organising some kind of fundraising event, especially an event to help build a new maternity hospital. Please contact us if we can give any support for your event.

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100% of donations received by the trust are sent to Rwanda. The trust has members who pay a membership fee, and that pays the cost of managing the trust.

 

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Maternity Hospital. In the past few years the number of children and mothers dying at the time of childbirth or shortly after has been reduced far below the figures in much of Rwanda. This does raise some challenges. The hospital is now in need of replacement at a cost of £300,000.

Achievements.

We always work through the parish or diocese. Achievements include:

• Stipend provided for parish priest
• Primary school repaired and refurbished
• Almost 300 children funded through secondary school
• Children's centre provided
• 16 Child headed family homes rebuilt and others refurbished
• Furnishing and equipment provided for child headed families
• Family heads vocationally trained
• Support given for coffee plantations
• Maternity unit building replaced
• Two midwives trained and infant and maternal death rates reduced
• Banana leaf cards sold
• Help given to widows.