The Xtra Mile Education Community members continued to meet on Saturday to spend time studying God’s Word and to exchange experiences. It is also a time to review the past and planning for the future of XMM program. Also this community organized the workshops, trips and events to be done in November and December 2009.
Two new people joined the XMM community. Now there are 11 people and demand is growing, especially from those who came to Kigali on a government scholarship.
Mobile Family
November was busy with different trips and workshops. The workshop’s topic was “Self-Discovery”. Every trip was led by the students from the district where the workshop was held along with the XMM community. Also they organized the schedule and activities for the workshops.
The main workshops were held in two districts: Bugesera and Huye with a one day trip to Nyanza district. Marty Koonce, Ndiyunze Adolph, Charles Kabeza, Willy Niyonteze, Gaethan Nsanzineza, Victory, Jado, Joseph Karimijabo and John were the speakers.
On last day of workshop in Huye, the main speaker was the Vice Mayor of Huye district. The fruit of these trips and workshops was very positive. Many orphans have new attitudes, increased their student scores and are making a commitment to serve their communities. Also some of who were older and uneducated decided to join schools even though they look older than students they will study with.
The main points of trip and workshops were:
- To get to know who God’s Word says that we are.
- To review what XMM accomplished since it started to work in those places.
- To reward the best students.
- To select the new students to come to the XMM education program 2010.
- To partner with local authorities.
A selecting team was composed by four people including; one representative of a district in XMM community, two people from the board of XMM and one person from a different district (Neutral). This team was in charge of selecting and giving a test to the new students who were chosen by district orphans community, and met criteria.
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