Help a Child Initiative

About Us

Our belief: At Help a Child Initiative, we believe that childcare, protection, and education collectively enhance the quality of education by creating a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment for children. Proper childcare ensures that children are physically and emotionally healthy, allowing them to focus on learning. Protection safeguards children from abuse and neglect, ensuring they can attend school regularly and concentrate on their studies. Quality education provides the necessary skills and knowledge, fostering intellectual and personal growth. Together, these elements contribute to a holistic development that improves educational outcomes and prepares children for future success. How we started Help a Child Initiative (HCI) is a Non-Governmental Organization established in Rwanda in 2013. It was one year from March 2012; the date when the Cabinet of the Republic of Rwanda approved the National Strategy for Child Care Reform which aims at transforming Rwanda’s current childcare and child protection system into a family-based, family-strengthening system whose resources (both human and financial) are primarily targeted at supporting vulnerable families to remain together. The strategy recommended that all children be moved to family-based care, with the youngest children to be moved out as soon as possible. Since then, HCI embarked on campaigning to find caring families for children living in various institutions while preventing the need for children to be placed in orphanages; to help Rwanda become an orphanage-free country in Africa. HCI has contributed enormously to this end goal with hundreds of children under our care through foster families across 5 districts. Currently, HCI is now registered with Rwanda Governance Board and was granted Legal Personality N°833/RGB/NGO/LP/06/2022 as a well-reputed non-governmental Organization in Rwanda.