raffle for rwanda

We need your help! To benefit our Soccer for Rwanda, we are holding a raffle. Artist Henry Isaacs has generously donated a painting titled, “View to Tanzania from Akagera, Rwanda (oil on linen, 38×52”),” painted just down the road from Rwinkwavu, where our project is serving children. The view is of the border area that once was the scene of tragedy during the Genocide. Now the area has a promising future as a national park.
Please consider purchasing a raffle ticket for $25 or six tickets for $100. All proceeds from the raffle will benefit our friends in Rwanda.

Please make checks out to The Change The World Kids

Donations may be sent to:

Change The World Kids
c/o Zoe Isaacs
P.O. Box 276
Islesford, ME
04646

about soccer for rwanda

A decade after the genocide,  children in the Eastern Province of Rwanda are fighting to overcome challenges that face many kids in Africa: poverty, education and disease. Many children in this area were left without families, homes, or education. 

Our dream has three parts: to enable youth in rural Rwinkwavu to attend schools, to provide health care and education, and to develop a recreation program. The recreation program involves supporting the growth of a youth soccer program, rebuilding the soccer stadium, and creating basketball and volleyball courts. The hope is that this new facility will become a youth center and an empowerment facility for health, and will bring together the community.


Hunger is often an idea that is hard to grasp. Joy is a fundamental right that we take for granted. In the most overcrowded nation in Africa, these ideas are not abstract, but instead are realities for the nearly 8.2 million inhabitants of Rwanda. 

facts and figures

[8.2 million] the population of rwanda

[800,000] number of rwandans killed in the 1994 genocide

[19,000] estimated number of children living with HIV

[220,000] childrens orphaned by HIV/AIDS
[70.4%] percentage of population who can read and write
[33%] percentage of adolescents attending secondary school
[rwanda is africa's most densely populated country]
[100] number of children who started in soccer for rwanda's original program

[2,700] number of children empowered by soccer for rwanda's program since 2006

[<18,000] $ raised for soccer for rwanda since 2006

photos: the stadium

our place

rwinkwavu, rwanda

photos: the children

our people