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The future site of Amahoro Hospice House at Sunset!
Turi Kumwe means We are Together ~ and this year, together we will build a foundation for Peace at Amahoro Hospice House, Kibogora Level 2 Teaching Hospital, Western Province, Rwanda!
The video below, made at the end of our 2022 visit to Kibogora, shows the Amahoro Hospice site as we initially found it.
The following video shot October 2024, shows the progress we made in clearing the site for what will be the 1st teaching hospice in Rwanda.
In 2025, HWB in collaboration with the Kibogora Level 2 Teaching Hospital, the Free Methodist Church of Rwanda, and each and every one of you, will build Amahoro Hospice House: a 14 bed residential hospice preferentially serving the very poor and providing a safe, dignified and peaceful home at end of life.
The original drawings by our friend Mike Ward!
Watch the thumbnail introductory videos above, donate what you can, and click here to learn how you can be a seed for building peace in Rwanda!
Palliative Care in Rwanda
Click here to view our short documentary video made by HWB volunteer Margo Hill. The video provides a nearly 11 minute snapshot of our work in Rwanda.
Since 2010, Hospice Without Borders has partnered with the Rwandan Ministry of Health as well as local and international NGOs to improve culturally appropriate access to home based hospice and palliative care clinical services, pain control (meaning oral morphine solution made by the Rwandan government), palliative care education, and bereavement support initiatives.
Street Outreach in Olympia Washington. This is one of our board members and volunteers, Rose Flannigan, gifting a memory quilt to a shelter guest and long time friend Doug, who had at the time of this photograph recently lost his spouse Minnie to illness. Rose's spouse had also recently died...they held that loss in common.
Rose said in their moment of shared loss, "Doug and I were the same...Two grieving human beings who had just lost the most important person in our lives, and that quilt bound us together."
Hospice Without Borders is now collaborating with End of Life Washington and The Olympia Fig to create Amahoro House Olympia: A short term hospice for terminally ill WA state residents, who are enrolled in hospice and have qualified for the DWD medication in WA state, but due to their living circumstances find themselves unable to utilize the option.
Amahoro House Olympia (seen below) aims to provide a safe and peaceful space for people to exercise autonomy and experience the dignified death as they themselves define.
This November 7th-9th, Hospice Without Borders is offering a 3-day residential version of Present to Dying. We are referring to it as, 'Gifts of the Turning Earth'.
We have decided to collaborate with our friends and hold this retreat at the lovely 29- acre lakeside Grinwood Retreat Center in Lacey Washington.
Space is limited. Click here to learn more and register!
Our 2024 Present to Dying
Medicine Bundle & Talking Piece
Hospice Without Borders earns the NEDA
(National End-of Life Doula Alliance)
proficiency badge and has incorporated NEDA standards into
Present to Dying