Team Heart Joins Forces with Kigali Reads

We are excited to announce brand new partnership of Team Heart and Kigali Reads!   This initiative began when Ceeya met Parfait, a Rwandan who is getting his graduate degree at UMASS and learned about his work with Kigali Reads.  Parfait has worked hard to establish  a literacy center for children to go to before and after school in Rwanda but needed some help securing some books for the Center .  The Willett family  took this project on and collected over 600 books which were shipped to Rwanda  with the Team Heart supplies and delivered  to  Kigali Reads by Drew, Anne and Rick.  The children were so happy to receive the books!   They opened the boxes like it was Christmas morning.

We had much needed assistance carrying the books down a narrow path to the new reading center, .Rindiro Jean from Kigali Reads, Drew and his new friend.

Andy is holding up the new banner announcing the partnership between Kigali Reads and Team Heart with Grace, the reading center's director.  Grace is Parfait's sister.  The children are shown here  are holding water bottles and wearing shirts  donated by Furnace Brook Middle School  in Marshfield, MA.