The Sisters

On request of the Presbyterian church, a Rwandan deaconesses community was established in 1984.

Until 2008 a Dutch deaconess* was in charge. The community has forty sisters and is led by a management team of two deaconesses and a pastor. The community is interdenominational and legally independent. The community is located in western Rwanda in the town of Rubengera. It is not far from Lake Kivu that forms the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. The sisters are active in many areas. In addition to church work, they support orphans, work on agriculture, manufacturing, education and healthcare.

*The deaconesses community of Amerongen is connected with the Rwandan community in Rubengera since 1956. From the foundation of the community of deaconesses in 1984 until 2008, the leadership was in the hands of a Dutch deaconess.

The sisters of Amerongen are still closely connected with the sisters in Rwanda and support the work through the Foundation Friends of Sisters in Rwanda.

You can read more information about the sister community in Amerongen on the website of community Bethanië.

Projecten

Construction of water pipe

Water, clean water is vital. The water supply on the sisters’ property requires a lot of attention, especially now that there are two school buildings. Fortunately, enough rain falls during the rainy season, which is […]

Mental Health Care Centre

The sisters see the need to help the many traumatized people in Rwanda. They want to start a project in Kigali and are looking for funds to make it happen. Sisters are already being trained […]

Support fund Indatwa School

The government considers it important that children receive education from the age of three or four, but does not provide any subsidies for this… The parents therefore have to pay the school fees themselves, which […]