Rwanda is one of the smallest countries on the African continent and also the most densely populated. There are about 525 inhabitants per square kilometre! Because of its natural landscape, Rwanda is known as the “land of a thousand hills”, and because of its history, also the “land of a thousand problems”.
12.02.2022
The hospice in Kabuga was visited by pupils from one of the local schools. There was no shortage of people wanting to come. The sisters had to severely limit the number of visitors, because the whole school of 4000 pupils wanted to participate.
They had expected a difficult encounter with suffering people, but instead found themselves in the middle of a home far removed from stereotypes and full of life and humour.
The 85-year-old Marcel, upon seeing the students, immediately started chanting traditional songs, which the youngsters immediately responded to by starting an intergenerational song and dance show. Thérèse, who is in the terminal stage of cancer, joked that she only came to the hospice for a holiday because no hotel has such a wonderful atmosphere as here.
In addition to laughter, jokes and dancing, there was also time for frank conversation. Both sides expressed their gratitude that such a place exists.
Our patients are genuinely happy to have come to Kabuga. On their behalf we thank you very much! It is you who give them hope and strength when everything seems to lose its meaning. We are very happy that we have built a real HOME with the Sisters and the sick, in which one lives fully to the very end!
You can now give more tangible help to the patients of the only hospice in Rwanda. All you have to do is become an assistant to Ernestina, who looks after the patients. Every little but regular contribution means that we can supply the hospice with essential medicines, equipment and pay medical staff. Join Team Ernestina TODAY and compete for a prize in the Team of Angels Challenge!
26.08.2025
An hour’s walk to school. Under a tattered uniform, notebooks that simply dissolve during the rainy season. Disappear. Education is not just learning to read and write. It’s the only lifeline you can grab when fate has been pulling you down since birth. It’s the promise that your story doesn’t have to be the same […]
23.05.2025
On Wednesday, 21 May 2025, a ceremony of special significance took place at the Presidential Palace. On Humanitarian Aid Day, the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, honored people whose lives bear witness to extraordinary dedication to others. Among them was Sister Maria Piątek, director of the only hospice in Rwanda—run by the Polish Sisters of […]
11.02.2025
No one can tell another person what the meaning of life and suffering is. Each of us must find that answer on our own and take responsibility for it. To answer the question asked by Viktor Frankl: “What gives my life meaning?”. In Rwanda or Congo, few have read his bestselling book, yet somehow, every […]
