Project: Kigali
PROSTHETIC FEET FOR RWANDA
Jeff Kingsley of KINGSLEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY in Cost Mesa makes prosthetic feet. Since January 2005, he has donated over 150 feet to THE MOSES FUND.
Sir Edward Artis of KNIGHTSBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL delivered the feet to Edmond Goldman of ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS who delivered the feet two times to Getara Rudasingwa’s MULINDI JAPAN ONE LOVE PROJECT in Kigali, Rwanda.
Getara’s organization MULINDI JAPAN ONE LOVE PROJECT ( http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2001_August_6/ai_77497071 ) pays disabled people in workshops all over Rwanda to make prosthetic limbs. When he receives Jeff Kingsley’s feet he distributes them throughout Rwanda free of charge to people, many maimed during the genocide, who need them.
THE MOSES FUND, A RWANDAN NONPROFIT
Jeff Mugabo is an old friend of Kiro’s from Rwanda. Jeff has done the footwork and paperwork to have THE MOSES FUND recognized as of October 11, 2005 as a nonprofit in Rwanda. There are more fees that will eventually be paid, but for now we are recognized.
JEFF MUGABO’S WORK WITH CAURWA
Jeff Mugabo is also our contact to CAURWA , a BATWA organization that sent representatives with Jeff to meet with people from the mayor’s office in Kanama to try to help with THE MOSES FUND project to teach the group of BATWA we met outside Gisenyi to build super adobe houses.
Click to see CAURWA Report
To find out more about the Batwa:
- http://www.heritiers.org/caurwapresentation.html
- http://www.unpo.org/news_detail.php?arg=10&par=2443
- http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/892/
- http://www.unpo.org/member.php?arg=10