Transforming Communities through Discipleship, Partnership, Service and Development
The Intermediate Level Quilting Course has now opened, with the same women who successfully completed the 2009 Beginning Quilting Course. This time, the women are busy making placemats and table runners so they can show their skills and produce an attractive marketable product. This takes time, and with a program that only runs 2 hours… Read More
ATN hosted two free sports camps for the youth in Kicukiro District. We conducted a week off football training for 4 hours a day and conducted a week of basketball training for 2 hours a day. Our program served approximately 150 student athletes, boys and girls, in our district, from the ages of 10-18 years.
December was an exciting month for Taekwondo in Rwanda as two master coaches and the women’s national champion arrived for a weekend of training at Ecole Belge for the top Taekwondo athletes of Rwanda. The athletes trained for a total of eight hours from Friday afternoon until Saturday afternoon. Training, technical movements, and preparation for… Read More
This month Martin Koonce held another training session, attended by twenty of Rwanda’s top Taekwondo athletes where we discussed the proper steps for registration with the ministry of sports; the steps required to begin the Taekwondo Federation of Rwanda; and new techniques learned by Martin while in Uganda. There was great excitement generated in preparation… Read More
During the month of November, ATN spent a great amount of time planning and preparing for our youth and sports camps in December. We met with school officials at St. Josephs and St. Patricks, hired coaches, we advertised and talked with kids and their families about our programs and bought equipment to prepare for December.
During a leadership training weekend with church leaders in Rutare, ATN also worked with over 100 kids from the village and surrounding areas. We taught them songs in English, we shared stories from the Bible and we played games together. On Saturday evening, the children were invited. along with the rest of the community, to… Read More
The interest in Taekwondo for Rwanda is growing rapidly and their seriousness about wanting to compete internationally caused Martin Koonce to travel to Kampala, Uganda and meet with the heads of the Ugandan Taekwondo Federation. During this visit relationships were established and commitments were made for the national coaches and women’s national champion to visit… Read More
This month we held the first training session for those interested in advancing in the sport of Taekwondo, a martial art form that was developed in Korea and is an Olympic sport. Those who came were from three principle areas; Kigali, outlying areas of Kigali, and Huye (National University of Rwanda). There were twenty athletes… Read More
After an extension of the Course for 4 more weeks, the Pilot Project Beginning Quilting Course was completed. The women were each awarded a certificate of completion, stating that they have successfully mastered on a beginning level the skills of piecing, hand quilting, and machine quilting. Discussion and planning for the next step led the… Read More
The Pilot project for women continued into Feb. with vigor, after a few dropped out who were not able to continue. These determined women began learning how to choose fabric and colors, how to cut accurately using a rotary cutter with mat and ruler, and how to construct simple blocks and triangles to make designs… Read More
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