David Dale Shyogwe Trust
Registered Number 1086330
 
Objectives
1) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP DUE TO POVERTY, SICKNESS, DISABILITY AND OLD AGE.
2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY PURCHASE OF BOOKS AND SCHOOL MATERIALS.
3) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION BY FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR CLERGY AND RETIRED CLERGY, FOR THEOLOGICAL TRAINING AND FOR BUILDING WORKS.
 
(Area prescribed by Governing Document)
EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF RWANDA, SHYOGWE DIOCESE RWANDA


Registered 26 Apr 2001
 
Areas of Need
Education/Training
Medical/Health/Sickness
Disability
Relief of Poverty
Overseas aid/Famine relief
Accommodation/Housing
Religious activities
 
The Beneficiaries
Children/Young people
Elderly/Old People
People with a disability/Special Needs
 
How
Makes grants to individuals (includes loans)
Makes grants to organisations(incl. schools, charities etc)
 

Key Personnel Profiles

Canon David Dale, Commissary to Bishop Jered Kalimba and Reader of Marchwood Parish, Winchester Diocese, England. 

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7 Reed Drive, Marchwood, SOUTHAMPTON, Hampshire, S040 4YF England               Email dldale@btinternet.com
Travels annually to Shyogwe to monitor projects supported by the Trust.  Travel costs are not met by Trust funds but he is supported in part by Winchester Diocese, Poikilos Trust and various individuals.  Recently returned from Shyogwe after 3 months supporting the Diocesan Administrator and representing Bishop Jered who was preparing his final thesis for a Masters Degree in Theology at the University of Strasbourg.
 

Bishop Jered Kalimba

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Episcopal Church in Rwanda,

Diocese of Shyogwe, BP 27 GITARAMA, Rwanda, Central Africa

Bishop Jered is a courageous man of vision and dedication to his Christian calling in Shyogwe Diocese.  His philosophy is one of encouraging the people to solve their own problems as far as they can, to work to support their families with the minimum of dependency on aid and to bring the Kingdom of God to the people of Shyogwe Diocese.

Diocesan Administrator

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Rev Emmanuel Twahirwa (Address as for Bishop Jered)

Email dsgwegit@yahoo.com


Mothers’ Union Worker 

Shyogwe Diocese
Emilienne Akimpaye, (Address as for Bishop Jered)
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John Wesley Kabango

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Studied Rural Development at College of the Holy Ghost, Dublin and is hoping to complete a Masters Degree later this year.
Former Co-ordinator of the Rural Development Interdiocesan Service working for four dioceses in the south of Rwanda.  An extremely able, intelligent and holy man who is a very important part of the future of Shyogwe Diocese.  

Achievements during Financial Year 1st April 2004 - 31st March 2005
 

The Charity has attracted £17,874.79 in funding and has supported Shyogwe Diocese in many projects and activities.  David Dale visited Shyogwe Diocese from 25th August to 22nd September 2004. He travelled to Shyogwe with three objectives.

  1. To train Catechists with reference to their calling as Christians, looking at the calling of the Old Testament Prophets and of the Disciples in the New Testament.  He taught also of the History of the Church of England. This activity took place in the first two weeks of his visit and was part of a wider training which took place over a period of 2 months.  The first month’s training took place in the classroom and the second month in their parishes.  The whole training consisted of New Testament studies, Old Testament studies, the Prayer Book, Doctrine, Leadership Skills, Nutrition, Hygiene, Agriculture and Management of small projects.  In some aspects it involved the wives of the students and training was carried out by suitably qualified Pastors and members of the Rural Development Interdiocesan Service (RDIS). 35 Catechists had applied for training and 15 had been rejected. The reason for this training was to allow 8 new Parishes to be formed and to select suitable leaders for these Parishes.  It is particularly encouraging to see the church growing in the Diocese of Shyogwe.
  2. The second objective was to visit the new Parishes and to give them encouragement.  He visited 7 of the 8.  One is in the northern most part of the Diocese in the Parish of Nyabinoni at Ngaru Chapel, one at Mpemba in Nyarugenge Parish, two in Nyamagana Parish at Butansinda and Tambwe Chapels, one in Gasharu Parish at Kagarama Chapel, one at Gisanga Chapel in Shyogwe Parish and one at Gahombo, a chapel in Nyagisozi Parish.  The chapel not visited was also in Nyabinoni Parish at Muyebe.   The trust gave £1000 to help set these parishes up.
  3. The third objective was to visit projects which had received Trust support.

 From 15th January to 15th April 2005 David Dale once again visited the diocese.  We are very grateful to the Poikilos Trust who paid for his flight. 

In the absence of the bishop he was working with the inexperienced diocesan administrator offering advice and help in the management of the diocese.  One of his important objectives was to try to improve the financial accountability in the diocese. He again visited many parishes and observed most of the projects which the Trust had supported last year.

The Ambulance is doing good work at Shyogwe Health Centre and he drove it to collect a sick woman who was then taken to Kigali Hospital where she made a good recovery.

The vocational training at Gitarama Youth at Risk Project is working well and has received £1100 from the Trust plus regular support to help pay the salary of the Director.

 He also visited the Vocational Training Centre at Nyarugenge which attracted a grant of £500.  This is now operational, teaching dress making and carpentry.  Another 3 classrooms are at foundation level and require further support.  The students at Gitarama and Nyarugenge will form co-operatives on completion of their training and will need tools (sewing machines, carpentry tools etc) to enable them to start these small business schemes in the future. 

For the first two weeks he was accompanied by Mrs Miriam Bateman, a teacher at Marchwood Junior School, who in 2003 trained 22 teachers from Shyogwe Primary school in more creative and up to date teaching methods of teaching English.  Her role this year was to observe the teachers in school and to train a few of them to be able to pass on the skills learned to other teachers.

Major funding of £9550 has been allocated to provide Rural Development Training at Dublin for John Wesley Kabango.  The total cost will be £10550 which has been kept to a minimum due to John’s careful management of resources and due to support from the Anglican Church in Dublin for which we are grateful.  We are now discussing further training for John in 2005-06 the funding of which has been pledged.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the generosity of all donors to the Trust who enable it to make a small but valuable contribution towards improving the lives of the people of Shyogwe Diocese.  May Almighty God bless each one. 

Canon David L Dale, Secretary and Treasurer of the David Dale Shyogwe Trust,

11th May 2005, for and on behalf of the Trustees and Committee.


 

Accounts for the Year 1st April 2004 to 31st March 2005


These will be available on the Charity Commission web site early in 2006******


 

Further activities, April – October 2005

Following on from that report for our AGM I add some further information of achievements during the first part of this financial year.

Expenditure has been broadly as follows to give you an idea of how the Trust, with your help, has been helping the people and churches of Shyogwe Diocese.


 

Rainwater storage project at Shyogwe Agro-Veterinary School

 

£500

 

School or University fees

 

£640

 

Training John Wesley Kabango

 

£3000

 

Care for people with disabilities

 

£480

 

Salary of Diocesan Administrator

 

£840

Training of Pastor Joseph Iyakareme in Management of Building Projects

 

£1000

New Parishes

Land at Gahombo

Land at Gisanga

Roofing Pastors house at Butansinda

 

£300

£300

£400

Youth at Risk Project

Director’s Salary

Project funding

 

£430

£831

Funds available for house and demonstration garden at Gitarama.
Please help (see below)

 

£2243

 

Sponsorship of vulnerable children

 

£431

 

Lap top Computer for RDIS

 

£400

 

Nyarugenge Vocational School

 

£530

 

Purchase of Toyota Land Cruiser

 

£400

 

Sale of Banana leaf cards

 

£175

 

Support for widows

 

£150

Completion of Conference Hall

(Some additional funding required but this amount will ensure that the hall becomes usable and therefore will provide an income)

 

£2000

 

TOTAL

 

£13,250


 

On 23rd January Rev John Wesley Kabango returned to Dublin to complete his MA in Development Studies.  Unfortunately we have been forced to shelve plans for Theological Training at Bristol because the Director of RDIS, Aloys Fashaho has left to continue his education at university.  John Wesley will therefore take his position as he is experienced in that field.

The two Primary School teachers who were to travel to Marchwood Junior School to spend some time with Mrs Miriam Bateman in continuing their teacher training have been unable to do so because of problems obtaining a visa. 

On 13th March John will accompany me and Bishop Jered Kalimba during a 5 week tour of churches and organisations in England.  From 18th to 26th April they will be visiting the Holy Land through the generosity of a retired clergyman and his wife. 

Youth at Risk Project, House and Land Purchase at Gitarama Parish.

In 2004 I identified a house available for sale and situated on the main road from Kigali to Gitarama town.  It is situated close to the Parish centre, next to the carpentry workshop and the Pastor's house.  It occupies land approximately 50 X 30 metres in size which is fertile and well maintained.  We wish to use this land as a demonstration plot for the Youth at Risk Project to show the young people and people in the parishes how they can gain the most potential from their land in terms of nutrition and profitability.  The RDIS Agronomist lives to the rear of the land and the Pineapple Juice extraction plant and the guest house (currently under construction) are also nearby.  Additionally the land can grow healthy crops that will also supply the new Guest House with fruit and vegetables and provide income. 
My vision for the house is that it will be able to accommodate small groups of visitors to the diocese.  I therefore hope that the interior of the building can be brought to a good standard of accommodation and the site made secure so that it is suitable for bringing youth groups and other visitors to visit Shyogwe Diocese and to provide some additional income which I hope might also provide help for retired Pastors. 

Situation update

The price of the house and land is £7000.  In October I asked John Wesley Kabango to send me a description of the interior of the house at Gitarama to see if the property was good value for the price asked.
John reported that the house has 8 rooms (two more than we had believed.)  5 of the rooms are bedrooms and there is a bathroom and toilets.

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The house was occupied by refugees in the aftermath of the genocide and electrical fittings were taken.  Water pipes will need to be replaced also.  John guessed that a further £3000 would be needed for building of secure boundaries and refurbishment of the house.

As I reported earlier during my 3 months spent in Shyogwe Diocese earlier this year the Youth at Risk Project again expressed their need for a plot of land to demonstrate small scale agriculture and animal husbandry.  This land is ideal for that purpose.

I have nearly £2500 in the Trust Account and a number of people have expressed interest in supporting this project.  I consulted John Wesley Kabango yesterday. We felt that the land alone was very important to us and that the refurbishment of the house could be carried out within the diocese as funds became available.  We felt that it was the right decision to go ahead now with the purchase, in faith, that this project is God's Will in furthering His Kingdom in Shyogwe Diocese, providing assistance to the poor and the vulnerable. 

One of our church members, Janet, is embarking upon a sponsored slim to raise funds for this project.  We are hoping that many of our friends will sponsor her.
I ask that you prayerfully consider whether you could provide some of the funding necessary. 

David Dale 25/01/06

 You will no doubt marvel at the purchase of a second hand Toyota Land Cruiser for the sum of £400.  This was given by one donor to whom I am very grateful.  However the vehicle was purchased with generous additional help from the Poikilos Trust.  We have funds in the Diocese to give our Nissan a new lease of life.  This was a great worry to me when I was in Shyogwe last.  I drove the Nissan to an Archdeaconry Seminar of Pastors, Catechists and their wives at Gasharu Parish and I was nursing a very sick vehicle there and back.  This was one occasion among many at which I was invited to teach. 

I spent 3 months working with Rev Emmanuel Twahirwa the new Diocesan Administrator.  I concentrated on improving the accounts procedures which were not very effective in controlling expenditure.  Some funds dedicated to one area of the work of the diocese were being spent on other things, notably transport.  I encouraged the diocesan staff to recognise that proper recording of income and expenditure gives a tool which enables planning and budgeting for the future.  We identified that the Nissan was very costly in spare parts and any vehicle to replace it needed to be a Toyota whose spares were a quarter of the price of Nissan spares.

 I travelled to many parishes preaching and encouraging especially in the eight new parishes.  I also grew vegetables in the Guest House garden after fruitless pleas for the staff to use the resources there thus reducing the purchase of food from Kinini Market, which spent some of the small freewill offerings of poor people of the diocese.  It caused some amusement to see the Canon bearing a hoe and handling manure but it was I believe an example to them.  I did not stay long enough to taste the fruits of my labours, peas, beans, cabbages, tomatoes, onions, but when the Bishop retuned from Strasbourg in mid-March I did involve him in some of the agricultural labour which really caused a stir!  

The whole of my stay was a very exhausting experience for me but one through which I now have much more understanding of the problems that exist for ordinary people there.  Unfortunately in May after I returned to England I suffered with shingles which was very unpleasant and from which I have not totally recovered.  As a consequence I was unable to lead a group from Christians Aware to Butare Diocese in August.  The group kindly agreed to postpone the visit until August 2006.

 Although the trust supplies financial support, my visits are as valuable in that I can encourage the parishes to strive to solve their own problems and to provide small amounts of money and advice when the people become discouraged by the many difficulties that can arise.  Once again I thank you all for your support and prayers which is so appreciated by me and also by the people of Shyogwe Diocese. 

Please continue to pray for Shyogwe Diocese, especially for the newly ordained Pastors discovering the enormity of the problems of leadership in their new parishes. 

 Pray for the Youth at Risk Project at Gitarama and the similar projects starting at Nyamagana and Hanika.   

Pray for Valentine, a lone orphan at Gitarama for whom the release of many genocide prisoners has brought back horrific memories of the murders of all her family and has caused her to suffer from trauma and depression. 

 Please pray for many suffering in the same way. 

Pray for Bishop Jered and his family that he may be strengthened and empowered to lead and pastor his flock with wisdom and compassion.

 Pray for health and strength for the Pastors and for John Wesley Kabango.  

Pray also for his wife Angelique who directs the activities of the Mothers’ Union while the MU worker is being trained in Uganda and who also directs the activities of Youth at Risk whilst also studying in the evenings at Gitarama University.

 Pray for sufficient funds within the Trust and wisdom to spend them in appropriate ways. 

May the Peace of the Lord be with you all.

 Best wishes, 

Canon David Dale

Commissary to Bishop Jered Kalimba