Turi Kumwe means We are Together ~ and today, after a 6 year journey, together we began building Amahoro Hospice House! 

Construction announcement!

Inside the job site prior to excavation.  June 14 2025!

Day 1 Excavations!

June 16 2025

Sunset at the future site of

Amahoro Hospice House

Background! 

The video below, made at the end of our 2022 visit to Kibogora, provides some background on our work in Rwanda and describes our collaborative effort to build a hospice in the heart of Africa!

Fast Forward ~ The following video shot  October 2024, shows the progress we made in clearing the site for what is soon to become the 1st hospice integrated into the palliative care department of a teaching hospital in Rwanda.   

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.

Learn more about our programs in Rwanda!

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.   

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