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”.
07.04.2024
Christine screams at night, haunted by her nightmares. As April 7th approaches, she curls up into a ball and stays that way for the next week. 30 years ago, she lost everyone. Her husband, children, even neighbors. Memories tear the healed wounds wide open. The same thing repeats, year after year.
In early April, the air here becomes thick with humidity. The sound of rain and screams. Except now, Christine hears the screams only in her head. Just as vivid, just as terrifying.
Exactly 30 years ago, on April 7, 1994, the genocide in Rwanda began.
“Hell is empty today. All the devils are in Rwanda,” said one of the missionaries, a witness to those events.
We’re not here to dwell on evil. Good Factory is about transforming despair into hope. Here, for 11 years, the Sisters of Angels have been doing just that, running the country’s first and only hospice.
We can’t cure death, but we can fight to ensure that people in the terminal stages of AIDS or cancer don’t die from hunger or in pain. There’s been enough suffering here!
Thank you for every day of care you’ve donated through GoodWorks24/7 for patients in our hospice.
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 […]
