War Survivors Ministries is supporting a around 30 orphaned children with their eductation through the Orphans' Education Project. Most of them have lost both parents and some of them live with their widowed mothers. Due to lack of family encouragement regarding their school work, they have learned to support one another to make sure that they get good grades and become successful in school. The older ones mentor the younger ones and help them like big brothers or big sisters. They make sure that school comes as a top priority, they make sure they understand that they are blessed to have people who pay tuition for them, and they encourage one another not to take it for granted. Their peer mentoring program has been very successful. They enjoy going to school, even though some of them had to stop it for a long period of time, following the death of their loved ones. Their story can be used by any other students, to have great academic outcome.

 

The goal of Peer Mentoring Program is to encourage students who have no major problems with their school work, to help their peers who are struggling with education. War Survivors Ministries has started putting these orphaned students in contact with other students in the United States, in order to encourage one another and share their life stories. This is an expension of the peer mentoring program between the students from both countries. This will give both groups the opportunity to learn from one another how to be a better student with aclear goal, who is pround of their education. We work with local schools and churches to identify students interested in paricipating in the peer mentoring program in Rwanda, and those interested in connecting with other students in the US. This is certainly a win win situation for all the students, those who can help others, and those who need help.