David Ngirimana has come a long way since he worked as a night watchman for a missionary family in 1998, just four years after the genocide.  Then he was just a young man of 24 years at the beginning of a lifetime friendship with an African raised Canadian named Jeffery Komant.  Jeff eventually co-founded the Wellspring Foundation and David now works alongside him and the rest of the Wellspring team as the Construction Supervisor.  He and his crew recently completed the building of the entire Wellspring Academy primary school. 

Last month, Wellspring’s 11 trainers completed a course on Servant Leadership, one of the first modules in the Whole School Development Program.  The trainers were personally challenged by the material and experienced radical transformation in their own lives.  Now the trainers have had the opportunity to lead almost 20 Head Teachers, Assistant Head Teachers, and PTA representatives from the schools Wellspring is working with through the same course.  They are half way through the 4-week training and it has been so exciting to hear examples of how people’s lives are already being changed.