Our Beginning

 
In 1994, Rwanda suffered one of history’s greatest genocides. In 100 days, around a million people were slaughtered as the Hutu attempted to wipe out the Tutsi. Rwanda was stained red with the blood of innocent men, women, and children. The genocide left 300,000 children as orphans, robbed of innocence after witnessing such evil. It was a dark time in the country’s history, but in the darkness, we found hope, confident hope. God brought our founders together while they were enduring great hardships as orphans of the genocide. They grew together and began to see the benefit and blessing of helping one another to succeed, whether it was sharing school supplies, food, or other daily needs. In 2001 they decided to make BFR an official organization. Then in 2012, the local leaders partnered with with the stateside entity, Best Family Ministries, in order to start a sponsorship program that serves the most vulnerable children in our communities.

Who We Are Today

 
We are an organization that focuses on family preservation by providing wholistic care to the children and families in our programs. Every child in BFR either lives with an immediate family member, extended family member, or with a member of the community that has lovingly taken a child into their home. We are a family-based care ministry because we believe God’s design for children is a family environment. We serve four communities within and around the capital city of Kigali. We began in the southwestern sector of Gikondo in 2004. In 2013 we continued into the northern sector of Kinyinya and worked primarily in villages established by the government for widows of the 1994 genocide. In 2014 we expanded into the southeastern sector of Nyarugunga, a village built by the government for widows and injured veterans. And in 2020 we started serving in the rural sector of Gahengeri, east of Kigali.

Discipleship

There’s little point in providing literal food and drink if we never teach about the Bread of Life that will allow us to never go hungry and the Living Water that will quench our deepest thirst. Our kids learn of the love, forgiveness, hope, and saving grace of Jesus.

Social Welfare

We’re a family. It’s in the name. Because of this, we are constantly taking strides to care for each other the way family would. We do this by providing food when others are sick, advocate for a household, or it might be just visiting a struggling family.