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The beneficiaries of liberty university students’ outreach
Five students from Liberty University in Lynchburg Virginia, United states visited Rwanda in order to build a school with the funds raised from the campaign ‘Restore Rwanda’ launched in February 2012.
During the mission week in March 2012, the students managed to raise $16,065 from the initial targeted goal of $24,000.
A 10- day mission trip in November 2011 moved 19 students to come up with the idea of helping poor widows of the1994 genocide victims and perpetrator.
“We wanted to have a viral campaign across the Internet with our friends and our family that started from here in Lynchburg, Va., that would change the destiny of some kids in Rwanda whose fathers and families were affected by this tragic event,” said campus pastor Johnnie Moore.
In one of the 40 villages they visited the director of the village offered a prayer, asking for three things – clean water, Education for the children, electricity and clean water.
The first prayer request was answered and the village has clean water. After returning to the U.S., the original team was burdened to be the answer to the second request and launched RestoreRwanda.
With the nearest school being miles away, the young children are physically unable to travel to receive an education.
This Spring Break, Liberty students are also serving in Kosovo, Bosnia, the Pacific Rim, Ecuador and Slovenia through Liberty’s Center for Global Engagement.
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