Our Story & The Vision

Thirty years of yes,
told honestly.

From hospital corridors in 1995 to a government-aligned model today, the story of Feed My Sheep, the woman who carries it, and exactly how a family is transformed.

Apostle Mignonne Kabera, Founder and Vision Bearer of Feed My Sheep
The Vision Bearer

Apostle Mignonne Kabera · the yes that started it all

What God has done through one woman's obedience is written in thousands of changed lives. She carried food to hospitals before anyone called it a ministry. She opened a nursery school before anyone called it a model. She founded Feed My Sheep before anyone believed thirty children could become twelve hundred.

"Jesus said to him the third time, 'Simon, son of John, do you love me?' … Jesus said to him, 'Feed my sheep.'" John 21:17 · the word this ministry is built on

Through her, and through the church she leads, this work has been carried year after year, quietly, faithfully, and at real personal cost. Every number below began with her yes.

30 yrs
of continuous compassion ministry since 1995
1,200+
children nourished back to health
800+
mothers & parents trained and equipped
50+
couples and families restored
Our Story

Three decades of quiet faithfulness

Before there was a center, there was a woman carrying food to mothers in hospitals. Before there was a program, there was a conviction: that no child should stay hungry in a community that loves God.

Feed My Sheep grew from that conviction, from thirty children in a rented house to a nationally recognised, government-aligned model. And for all these years, it has been carried without a single external donor.

No grants. No gala dinners. Only the church, its members, and a Vision Bearer who said yes to God, year after year, cohort after cohort.

This is not survival. This is faithfulness. And now, faithfulness is ready to scale.

1995

The seed of the vision

Apostle Mignonne Kabera begins hospital food distribution for mothers, together with various churches. She sees the gap: mothers receive food, but malnourished children go home to the same hunger.

2015

Ishami Nursery School

Vulnerable street children are given free education and care: around 150 children removed from street life and given a place to belong.

2017

Feed My Sheep is born

The Center opens with 30 children in a rented house in Kagugu, the most populated cell in Kigali, inside Kinyinya, the most populated sector in Rwanda. God did not lead Apostle Mignonne to the edge of the need, but to its very heart. Three years later the center moves onto church-owned land, and district authorities come asking to collaborate.

2020

Government partnership

The City of Kigali and Gasabo District, through Kinyinya and Gisozi sectors, begin referring malnourished children through health centers for six-month nutrition and education cohorts. Mothers join the journey too.

Today

A proven model, ready to scale

Eleven cohorts. Over 1,200 children graduated. A 95% health-improvement record. National recognition. And a roadmap to bring this model to every district that needs it.

Why Kagugu

The address is part of the calling.

Feed My Sheep could have opened anywhere. It opened in Kagugu, the most populated cell in Kigali, inside Kinyinya, the most populated sector in all of Rwanda. Life here is pressed close: households carrying more than one home can hold, and children growing up where the line between enough and not-enough runs thin. In Kagugu, need is not scattered, it is concentrated.

That is not a detail of the story. That is the story. God did not call Apostle Mignonne to a comfortable corner of the city. He called her to the densest ground in the nation, and she said yes.

Now the vision rises. What was proven on the hardest ground is ready to be elevated: upgraded facilities, deeper reach, more families served. The Kagugu story is not finished; it is scaling.

And the ground itself testified
95%
of children showing positive health improvement, eleven cohorts running
2020
the year government referrals began, with health centers bringing children to us
3×
Best Community Partner of Gasabo District, three years in a row

Behind the red zone

Stunting is never the child's fault, and it is rarely one thing. It grows where life has already become too heavy for the family that should be carrying it.

Extreme poverty

Kitchens that empty before the month does; parents choosing between rent and food.

Family breakdown

Mothers left alone to raise children; absent or irresponsible fathers.

Trauma & abuse

Domestic violence, loss and crisis that wound the home a child grows in.

Addiction

Alcohol and dependency that steal what little a household has.

We do not judge these families. We carry them, because behind every malnourished child is a family that needs healing too.
The Model

Six months. Three phases.
A whole family transformed.

We never treat the child alone, because behind every malnourished child is a family without the income, knowledge or support to break the cycle. So the child heals, and the mother rises, together.

PHASE 01

Enrolment

District and sector leaders identify children with acute malnutrition or stunting. Each child receives an immediate health assessment, hygiene intervention, and individual growth targets, set with our nurse from day one.

PHASE 02

Empowerment

Children receive daily nutritious meals, health monitoring and early childhood education. Mothers train in tailoring, knitting, soap-making and food production, with business mentorship and a cooperative to stand on their own.

PHASE 03

Graduation

Children reach their growth milestones and enter school ready to learn, with school fees supported where needed. Families graduate with income-generating capacity and follow-up to sustain their independence.

Mothers in the Feed My Sheep tailoring class, learning on sewing machines Caregivers serving nutritious meals to children at the center
The Number Behind Every Family
$347
carries one family, one child + one mother, through the full six-month transformation.

RWF 509,575 covers everything the journey requires: the food, the care, the teaching, the training, and the people who make it personal:

Daily nutritious meals Nurse screening & growth tracking Early childhood education Mother's skills training Psychosocial & family support School-fees continuity

Two cohorts run every year: 200 children and 150 mothers per cohort, cared for at a 1:6 caregiver ratio.

You've seen what faithfulness built.
Now see what partnership will do.

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