Family Support

Shelter Them cannot achieve our educational goals without at the same time providing support to the children’s families. This support includes not only housing, medical care, and emergency relief, but also addresses issues such as parenting skills, mental health, and social integration. Shelter Them recognizes the continuing impact to the Rwandan genocide against Tutsis of 1994 and its aftermath. Our goal is to help to overcome the social and psychological impacts of that tragedy, and assist parents, many of whom were children of the genocide, to transition from dependence to independence and empowerment.  Shelter Them continues its collaboration with the National Child Development Agency (NCDA) to reintegrate children living without parental care back into their families.