Rwanda is one of the smallest countries on the African continent, and the most densely populated one. There are around 463 inhabitants per 1km2 here! Due to its natural landscape, Rwanda is sometimes referred to as a land of a thousand hills, and due to its history, also a 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.
22.01.2024
“Grandma, please get up, let’s eat something! Grandma!” Alarmed by the screams, the neighbors rushed to Félicité and her granddaughter Aline’s house. They found a terrified 14-year-old trying to wake up the unconscious senior. As they took the elderly lady to the hospital, Aline, who is hard of hearing, couldn’t understand their explanations. She screamed […]
18.08.2023
“We were frightened when she fell over. But the really chilling thing was the silence when, instead of crying, she didn’t get up. You could feel that the whole world was holding its breath. We only keep in touch with Melat’s dad via WhatsApp, as he has never stopped looking to the farthest corners of […]
05.06.2023
“She is our mother. She loves us very much. Mum, you know she does, don’t you?”, Teresa says. The woman has suffered a stroke and is paralysed. However, she has no problem throwing herself into Sister Maria’s arms, hugging her and talking as if she were her mother. Teresa has been in the hospice in […]
