Policy plan 2023/2024

Policy plan 2023-2024

The five main goals of the organization A Cup for Humanity

  • Peace Education
  • Psycho Trauma Care
  • Child support
  • Empowering migrants/refugees/displaced persons
  • Sewing workshop (continued)

Introduction;

As the board of the A Cup for Humanity Foundation, we have decided to opt for the above 5 main goals for the years 2023 and 2024. We are focusing on Rwanda, and we also want to work with the Rwandan government. We are also looking for local partners within Rwanda, some discussions have already taken place. Our director Paul Mutama still lives with his wife and children in the capital of Rwanda, Kigali.

  • Peace Education

Following the training workshop for church leaders in February 2023, we want to follow up on this in 2024 as well. The training was given by Rev. Philip van Wijk, he is willing to continue with this in 2024. In the first instance, this concerns three different locations in Rwanda, namely Kayonza (Eastern Province), Kabeza (City of Kigali), and Huye (Southern Province). At the moment, it is also being investigated whether it is possible to work together with Partners within Rwanda. If this succeeds, we will be able to expand our activities together. Peace education in Rwanda remains necessary for the development of a non-violent generation. With this project, the A Cup for Humanity Foundation hopes for even more expansion of the groups already formed in 2023. We are also currently working on cooperation with the Ministry of Reconciliation of Rwanda and, as mentioned earlier, with Rwandan Partners.

  • Psycho trauma care

When A Cup for Humanity was founded in 2018, it had already chosen to set up healing campaigns intended to bring together war victims and victims of other human rights violations with experts in the field of trauma therapists. The main goal of such campaigns is to provide affordable trauma care to as many people as possible in Rwandan communities. We were able to follow up on this plan in July 2023. Jannetta Bos, Psychotherapist, organized a special training course for lay counselors in mental health care in Rwanda on behalf of A Cup for Humanity. The training was given at 2 different locations; 1 in the Sovu sector, the Huye district in the southern part of Rwanda, and 1 in the city of Nyamata. Jannetta has indicated that she will also be available for training in Rwanda for the year 2024. As a board, we are sticking to our plan to send trauma therapists from the Netherlands to Rwanda.

  • Child support

Due to the unsafe situation in Eastern Congo, we started supporting poor Rwandan children at the end of 2020. Due to our financial situation, we were only able to support 2 families in 2023. We hope to be able to support more families in 2024. We can only achieve this through more fundraising through our donors. As a board, this is our priority for the coming period.

 

  • Empowering migrants/refugees/displaced persons

One of the pillars of A Cup for Humanity is to empower refugees within their society. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, it has been difficult for us to visit refugee camps in Rwanda or even bring them together through our programs. However, we have managed to keep in touch with refugee pastors in the region. We plan to restart this in 2024. A Cup for Humanity aims to encourage leaders to develop relationships of trust, respect, and cooperation. Mutual efforts for hospitality, visits, prayer, service, or other ministry activities together increase cross-cultural understanding and relationships. Whether we will succeed will depend on the accessibility of the refugee camps and the available funding

Study of Theology

From September 2019 to July 2020, Paul studied extensively at the Protestant Theological University and at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where he successfully completed a one-year master's degree. Paul studied intercultural theology, specializing in violent conflicts, community healing, and reconciliation. In his work for A Cup for Humanity, the desire to expand his theological knowledge was strengthened. And to gain more skills that could help him develop a peace-making model for the peaceful coexistence of rival ethnic groups. Insights from his research confirmed that a community-based reconciliation model works best to stop past events by limiting exclusions of boundaries between ethnic groups in Rwanda. Paul hopes that stakeholders will continue to benefit from his research findings in 2024 and that they will use them to contribute to the development of a peaceful Rwanda.

  • Sewing workshop (continued)

As part of our program to contribute to community transformation, we launched our first sewing workshop in Kigali Rwanda at the end of October 2020. We bought modern sewing machines, rented a space, and recruited a professional teacher who was responsible, among other things, for training women in sewing skills. Although the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily interrupted our activities, we kept the spirit and trained at least 20 women in the year 2021. Because we could not get the financing in order for the year 2022, we temporarily stored the sewing machines. After the visits to the groups in 2023 by Rev. Philip van Wijk, Jannetta Bos, and Aad and Jeannette van den Bos, the board has decided to donate the current 5 sewing machines to the groups that have already been built. In this way, we sponsor a number of women within the groups and contribute to social transformation and poverty reduction. We hope to be able to deliver the sewing machines from storage to the groups in February 2024.