Opportunities
SERVICE AND CULTURAL
We are committed to serving our volunteers by providing the most incredible experience possible! The goal is service, and there are many ways that we serve together. Volunteers work alongside staff to creatively develop programs or projects that will impact and involve the local Rwandans even after they leave.
Below are some of the service projects and experiences that are part of most trips to Hope Haven Rwanda.
Working with Students
School is the primary platform for ministry at Hope Haven Rwanda. Guests will be assigned to one of our classrooms to connect with one team of teachers and 45 students. Approximately 2 hours each day will be spent serving in the classroom alongside our teachers, and will include building relationships, teaching, games, puzzles and mentoring opportunities. Recess time will also be spent interacting with the students.
There are 1,516 disadvantaged students attending our school, so there is plenty of opportunity for relational ministry based around VBS programs, games, sports, Bible studies, and one-on-one discipleship and field trips
Service projects, home rebuilds, water access projects, community-wide worship events, children’s day camps, training on nutrition, hygiene, etc.
As a large Christian school, we have many opportunities for Bible teaching and ample opportunity for volunteers to share testimonies or teach lessons.
- Weekly chapel services for all students
- Bible classes
- Faculty and staff Bible studies
- Monthly community outreach events
We have a thriving community of men who are growing in their faith and we ask mature men who are visiting to spend time investing in these men. One-on-one mentoring, small business coaching and personal encouragement are all needed by these vulnerable men.
Continuing education, computer training, cooking, facility maintenance, to name just a few.
At various times throughout the year, we need help in several acres of farmland, digging, planting and harvesting.
Walking to Kabuga Market, hiking to the neighborhood well, where many of the locals fetch water each day, shopping in Murindi market.
- Visit the Kigali Genocide Memorial, a place for remembering and learning
- Church on Sundays in Kigali
- Exploring Kigali
- Shopping at Kimironko Market, the largest market in Kigali
- Sample interesting local restaurants
- Tourist attractions
Akagera National Park
Experience an African safari in eastern Rwanda, alongside the Tanzanian border, where you are likely to see giraffe, elephants, zebra, baboons, many other exotic animals and perhaps even a lion!