UBUMWE Basketball Camp

Prison Fellowship Rwanda, in partnership with The As We Forgive Rwanda Initiative, and Peace and Love Proclaimers, is hosting a basketball camp to use sport as an engine to promote repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation to Rwanda’s street children. PFR and their partners hope to further the efforts of the existing reconciliation projects by combining the healing power of sport with the principles of reconciliation to contribute to the formation of a more unified and reconciled post-genocide Rwanda.

The group of 85 street children attending the Ubumwe Basketball Camp come to Prison Fellowship Rwanda every Wednesday to receive food, Bible teaching, and structured character-building activities. This camp receives the children on Saturday, giving the children one more meal in their week and a chance for fun and valuable unity teachings.

Many of these children are forced to fend for themselves on the streets, seeking food and shelter. In most cases, due to lack of food and basic necessities, many street children resort to theft and the use of drugs to survive and are often themselves victims of crime and abuse.
For many of the street children, Ubumwe offers the the joys of childhood in the lives of many who suffer from difficult home situations. Ubumwe Basketball Camp has been a huge success and the street children are begging for more!

The sport camp is a seven-week program. Prison Fellowship Rwanda is thankful for their partnerships so that the street children could experience emotional healing, fun, and receive a nutritious meal with the support of loving adults.