Mother’s Union

After the genocide, the country was left with a vast number of widows, many of whose husbands died and other whose husbands were jailed. A lady from Gitarama decided to do something about the widows’ struggle to adjust to living on their own and founded the Mother’s Union (MU). MU’s are now run in all dioceses. This association aims to look after widows and their families as a whole in managing Youth at Risk projects (see below above for more detail), educating widows in finance and savings, nutrition and hygiene and training them to make hand crafts for additional income. These ladies meet regularly to support each other morally and spiritually. Here is a photo of some of the crafts produced by the ladies.