We arrived to Kigali on tuesday afternoon after travelling alomost 24 hours. Alfred, the leader of Rwanda’s SOS children’s villages picked us up from the airport. We had a short brake at the hotel before we left for a visit to Kigali’s SOS children’s village. In the village there are 150 children in 15 houses. There are also houses for youngster who are going to move out from home, but they are not ready for fully independet life yet.
The children at the village were really interested in our cameras 
At the Kigali village there is also a primary school for 640 children as well as a medical center, wich is open for the whole community. In Rwanda the average class size is 68. In SOS schools the average is 36. It’s importat for the children living in the village to have proper education, because they will not inherit anything from their parents that will secure their future, with education they can have a good future.
On tuesday it was a bank holiday in Rwanda so the medical clinic was closed, but the clinic’s doctor Jean-Baptiste was there to introduce the clinic for us. At the clinic the clients can have all basic care: meet the nurse or doctor, have laboratorie tests and get medicine. On saturdays there is also gynegolocal consultion available. Visiting the medical clinic is not free, but it is a lot cheaper than in other places.
The last place we visisted was a SOS technical school. There are 240 students majoring in five different subjects. The subjects are: computer science, electricity, electronics, accounting and carpentering. The school takes three years. The school is a boarding school and they have own garden, where students helps the gardener. The schol was funded in 2005 and former students have already founded three companies. The students have also very good employment rates. 96 procent of the graduates gets jobs.
The afternoon was very interesting and gave a good picture of the work SOS does. The most important thing for me is that everybody genuinely wants these children to have good future. The SOS work really focuses on that.
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