Christine
PROGRESS
OUR GOAL: A CIRCLE OF SUPPORTERS GIVING $350/MONTH OR $4200 FOR THE YEAR
Rwanda
University of Rwanda
Finance
CAREER: Entrepreneur
GRAD DATE: 2023
JOURNEY
- March 1, 2023 – In a recent Leadership Development Workshop, we explored the question, “How can you make sure the pain of your past doesn’t determine your future?” What stood out and meant the most to you in this workshop? Christine said: “Through the workshop, I learned that the pain of my past does not have to determine my future. I can use my past as a lesson to help me plan and change my future, so that what made me fall in the past can’t bring me down in the future.”
- September 8, 2022 – Christine shared the biggest change in her life since the end of the COVID restrictions: “Since the end of the COVID restrictions, I learned that my life belongs to me and I have to drive it the way I want it to be. I’m not waiting for the government or those in charge to know what’s best for me. I learned to take charge of my own future.”
- September 13, 2021 – Christine shared her favorite song and what it means to her: “My favorite song is “Thank God” by Riles: https://youtu.be/CwLppQOaNiohttps://youtu.be/CwLppQOaNio. This song reminds me of hundreds of reasons I have to thank GOD and no matter good or bad I have to live.”
- July 16, 2021 – Christine shared what resilience means to her: “To me, resilience means the ability of adapting myself well in the face of adversity, trauma, threats, or other significant sources of stress, such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, finances, and what is happening in the society around me.”
- March 1, 2021 – Christine said her biggest lesson from 2020 was: “My biggest lesson from 2020 was learning how to save so as to prepare for a better future because you never know how tomorrow will be.”
Christine’S CIRCLE
BIO
Christine is the firstborn in a family of four children. For the first 5 years of her life Christine was the only child where she had great freedom but then her little sister was born and two other kids after her. Christine is studying Finance at the University of Rwanda. Since she was a kid, she had a dream of creating her own business. She dreams of having her own company that will employ people as a solution to unemployment in the community around her. Studying Finance will help her know how to organize and make decisions for her company. It will also help her know how to control all the money of the company and how to use it properly. Outside of her studies, Christine enjoys swimming, listening to music, playing and watching basketball, and spending time with her family and friends.
Her childhood was pleasant, even though they were not rich, they were happy. Christine used to play outside all the time with her siblings, where she could sing and scream as loudly as she wanted to. There were not a lot of other kids to play with, except at school, so they made their own fun, rolling down grassy slopes, jumping, playing ball, playing house, and helping their parents with housework and gardening. She lived with both her parents and her father worked hard to feed them and cover all the expenses for the whole family. He worked 10+ hours per day.
Christine was a good student. In elementary school, she was particularly good at Mathematics. She says her childhood was a non-stop, fun-in-the sun blast, and it made her who she is today – a person who fights for a better future for herself, her family, friends and the community around her.
