Posts from October, 2007
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ASYV October 2007 Update
Dear ASYV Partners, Friends, and Supporters
Greetings! We would like to share some exciting news with you regarding the development of the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, a special project of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). As you will see from the attached Update, we continue to make great progress on all fronts, little of which would be possible without your prayers and support; so please receive our gratitude as well.
If you have thoughts, questions or suggestions which you would like to share, please contact us at info@agahozo-shalom.org.
Until next time,
April – September 2007
Major Accomplishments• Completion of architectural schematic designs
• Project’s website and informational package developed
• Rally for Rowley fundraising campaign
• Travel to Rwanda of US based architecture advisor for an extended meeting with the architectural firm
• Contract signed with major Rwandan construction company
• Travel to Rwanda of the Ethiopian-Israeli Volunteer Team, ASYV’s US-based Advisory Board members, and representatives from Liquidnet Holdings, Inc.’s Global Social Engagement Division
• Groundbreaking Event and Ceremony at site of ASYV in Rubona, Rwanda
• Audience with H.E. President Paul Kagame
• Hiring of future Head of High School
• Hiring of future Head of Informal Education
• Construction under way
• Development of training program and related budget for ASYV staff and students in the ICELP Educational Methods (www.icelp.org) (in development)
• Fundraising Master Plan (in development)[To read more of this article, download the PDF.]
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Life at Agahozo Shalom
By Rob Eshman, Editor-in-Chief
October 19, 2007
JewishJournal.comIf I wanted the kind of office where visitors shut the door and cry, I’d have become a rabbi. Or a therapist. Or an agent.
That’s why it caught me off guard when a woman named Anne Heyman sat down across from me and started, well, crying.
Heyman was in town last week to raise money and awareness for the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Moved to ease the plight of 1.2 million children left orphaned by the 1994 Rwandan genocide, she came up with the idea of emulating the Yemin Orde Youth Village in Israel, the model by which Israel absorbed, raised and educated hundreds of post-Holocaust Jewish orphans.
[To read more of this article, download the PDF.]
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H. E. President Paul Kagame Receives ASYV
Sunday, August, 19, 2007
The Sunday Times
Kigali RwandaWhile in Rwanda for the ASYV Ground Breaking, Anne Heyman, ASYV Founder and the Israeli Ambassador to Rwanda, Yaacov Amitai were received by H. E. President Paul Kagame. After hearing of the benefits of the village for his country and the orphaned children of Rwanda, he pledged his personal support of the project. Also accompanying Anne and Ambassador Amitai was Seth Merrin, CEO, Liquidnet Holdings, Inc., an american businessman and Anne’s husband, Sifa Nsengimana, Executive Director, ASYV (not pictured) and Gideon Herscher, JDC (not pictured).
