If people don't know the land is hurting, they won't move to heal it.
TIDA's advocacy and awareness programs raise the voice of faith-based conservation — reaching communities, schools, and churches with the message that creation care is everyone's calling.
The Problem
Environmental issues are often seen as secular concerns — disconnected from faith, irrelevant to church life, and someone else's responsibility. Communities lack awareness of how deforestation, soil erosion, and waste directly impact their livelihoods and future.
Churches, which hold tremendous influence in Rwandan society, rarely speak about creation care from the pulpit. The result is a gap between faith and environmental action — a gap that TIDA's advocacy programs are designed to close.
How We Work
Four channels of influence that shift perception, build awareness, and inspire action.
Community Campaigns
Door-to-door outreach, market events, and public gatherings that bring environmental awareness directly to communities. We meet people where they are — and show them why creation care is a biblical responsibility.
School Awareness Events
Environmental education assemblies, art competitions, and awareness days in schools across the region. Students learn about deforestation, waste, and water — and what they can do about it.
Church Engagement
Presenting creation care theology to congregations through guest sermons, workshops, and special events. We help churches see environmental stewardship as a core part of their mission, not an add-on.
Media & Communications
Social media storytelling, newsletters, photography, and video that amplify the voices of communities restoring their land. We tell the stories that need to be heard — locally and globally.
Our Reach
Communities
Door-to-door campaigns and public gatherings in villages across the Eastern Province.
Schools
Environmental awareness assemblies and competitions reaching students from primary through secondary.
Churches
Creation care presentations and workshops in congregations across Kayonza and beyond.
“I always thought the environment was the government's problem. When TIDA came to our church and showed us what Scripture says about creation, everything changed. Now our whole congregation plants trees together.”— Pastor Jean-Claude, Kayonza District