INSTITUTE OF WOMEN FOR EXCELLENCE!

*270 students completed the second term of the school year 2025.*

We thank God for the performance of all students during the second term exams. We are grateful to God for health and safety of both the teachers and students as well as other supporting staff (people in charge of security and kitchen) throughout the second term of the school year 2025.

In the past, teachers used to drop out the school even in the middle of the term due to the lack of certain benefits that were not available at IWE, including health insurance among many others. Actually, we thank God that the teachers are now stable. Yet, their prayer request is a provision of health insurance. Let’s join them to intercede for such critical issue.

*We thank God for the teachers’ hard work during the second term and encourage them to go on working diligently in the third term for the success of IWE School students.*

***We praise God for successful harvest we had from the school plot of land***

IWE School harvested beans and maize despite a bad agricultural season. We harvested 140kg of beans, 150kg of cassava, and 100kg of maize. Our school has started the project of Pig rearing, where we have two pigs. The harvest allows the school to compensate the unpaid school fees for some students who are not able to pay the total or the partial school fee due to economic and financial problems in their families.

We Also thank Rise Up Women International for its continuous support of all kinds to the IWE school and girls’ education. We have received $1,178 to support the eleven most vulnerable students. For now, we have encountered poor parents who were not able to pay school fees. Rise Up Women International has been standing with these vulnerable girls and supporting them by providing school fees.

IWE school still faces challenges in meeting its needs, which include feeding students and responding to other school materials and equipment needs. For the second term of the 2024-2025 academic year, 34 students were not able to pay in full school fees. This is a burden for the school to run its daily activities as a full private school, which relies on school fees paid by students. The debts of all these students are 5,540,000 Rwandan francs, equivalent to $3,858. This is a big sum of funds that would have helped the IWE school to run its daily activities. This is for the second term, and the school has limited hope for the third term if these students will be able to pay in full their school fees, and yet the second term is not paid for either.

IWE School needs to increase the materials and equipment it has to respond to the needs of 270 students.