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HOSTA

(HOPE FOR ORPHANS, SKILLS through TRAINING ASSOCIATION)

HOSTA is a Kigali, Rwanda based organization which offers Health Education and health care, and training in sustainable agriculture, literacy and Economic Development. HOSTA produces ‘train the trainer’ publications and sponsors workshops and conferences designed to support rural development efforts. HOSTA also houses and supports numerous children orphaned by the 1994 genocide and ongoing AIDS-related deaths in Rwanda. HOSTA proactively addresses the prevalent problem of illiteracy -- one of the most pressing challenges facing orphans in Rwanda. The effects of illiteracy are many and the major cause is poverty. 

Rev. Jim Jackson Mudahinyuka, Chairman

HOSTA (Hope for  Orphans,  Skills through Training)

among the children whom he so diligently serves

Hope for Orphans, Skills through Training Association was born to address the increasing demand for child headed families to acquire vocational skills.  Rev. Jackson founded HOSTA. 

The purpose of the vocational training Institute is to release the potential of literate youth in order to change and transform lives through sustainable, integrated vocational skills.

HOSTA equips the youth within the community and in the church to be self reliant through training as tailors, computer training, handicraft and art work design.

The youth will become community leaders with viable vocational skills and Godly wisdom, enabling them to effectively address the numerous problems in Rwanda and beyond its borders.

The Vision of HOSTA is improving the quality of lives for orphans in Rwanda. HOSTA is building a secure future full of opportunities, choices, and options for Rwandan orphans.  The United Nations convention on children's rights defines every human below the age of eighteen as a child.  Children need special care, protection, shelter, love and guidance which can be uniquely provided by parents.  Orphans must look to responsible adults to guide and develop their personalities and character so that the community as a whole is healthy.  HOSTA, as a concerned organization, will help to ensure Rwandan orphans receive the protection, love, care and guidance they so richly deserve.  

Vocational Training

Hope for Orphans to Skills and Training has supported the development of numerous child-headed families by providing vocational training in tailoring, embroidery and art work design.  More than 200 child- headed families have directly benefited from vocational training. HOSTA has also empowered families where these children live with relief items such food. This has been in partnership with the World Food Program.

Health

HOSTA has received funding from UNV and TROCAIRE.   Funds have been used to purchase health center equipment for children, including a laboratory.  Additional funding is being sought to support the administrative cost of running the health center. HOSTA faces challenges in paying for basic medications and preventative health care, and an ever rising demand for services. 

HOSTA is planning a Children's Village to support the needs of children orphaned by AIDS/HIV and the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda.  The Children's Village will support children in Mutara prefecture and Kigali.

Caregivers in extended families will also receive support.  HOSTA will encourage unity and reconciliation among victims of genocide who often must live among the perpetrators of genocide. 

Orphans will be protected from child labor and other abuse.  A spirit of dignity, peace,  tolerance, freedom, equality and solidarity  will be nurtured and developed in support of self-sufficiency and economic independence.  

Income generating projects, such as the successful Maize mill project, independent funding and private donations support the Children's Village.