Randy Vanderveen: : self-employed- freelance
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Grande Prairie, AB, Canada |
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780-538-9371 (home)
780-897-6478 (business) |
| Randy Vanderveen's Message: |
I just returned from a two week mission trip in Rwanda, with two other members of my church (including my wife) and seven members from another area church. The country and the people are both beautiful and I would return in a heartbeat. The two local churches have a partnership with a church and school in the southern province of Rwanda between Nyanza and Butare. We spent time visiting HIV patients, orphan and vulnerable children households, seeing the work being done by the Guardians of Hope, which supports HIV positive and AIDS-infected people and helps them to support themselves financially by making traditional crafts or farming. We also installed some solar powered-lighting in the pastor's house, spent time with the students at the secondary school. In short we spent two weeks building relationships and working on going beyond a partnership to friendship and fellowship with our Rwandan brothers and sisters.
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256 days ago |
| Member Since: |
6.21.2002 (Senior Member) |
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"Watching closely"
A group of Rwandan youth watch as one of the team members from Alberta gets tested for HIV. Most tea... |
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"Rwandan cowboy"
A young Rwandan boy herds cattle on the mountain side near the Gary Scheer school. |
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"Sunday school students"
Young Rwandans packed a class room at the Gary Scheer school during Sunday school. |
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"Tailor made"
A Rwandan man hired by the Dorcas group in Kigali sews trousers. The Dorcas group allows women to op... |
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"Children in community"
Children walk on a path near one of the houses in the community surrounding the Gary Scheer school. |
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"Basket making"
A member of the Guardians of Hope works on a traditional basket made of sisal and banana leaves. Bas... |
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"Head work"
A pair of Rwandan youth carry a load on their heads as they make their way along a path through a ca... |
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"Hillside paradise"
A patchwork quilt of terraced fields blanket the mountain side of one of Rwanda's 1,000 hills. Every... |
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"Tea time"
Tea plantations cover the land near both entries to Rwanda's Nyungwe Forest. Coffee is another large... |
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"Silhouette"
A lone worker is silhouetted against the morning sky as he dismantles scaffolding from inside a chur... |
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