Rwanda Revisited
“Karibou, karibou!” I jolted awake. The man sitting next to me on the plane to Kigali, a Rwandan Christian youth minister, was enthusiastically welcoming me to Rwanda. He looked at my startled...
View ArticleGlimpses of Hope
Today begins with a bad story, and ends with a good one. We had heard about a settlement of recent returnees from Josh Ruxin, our gracious host in Kigali and director of Rwanda’s Millennium Villages...
View ArticleFaces From the First Day
Weaving baskets, $1 a day The water truck comes to the Bugesera relocation village three times a week Mayange’s only male basketweaver A nurse at the Nyamata Medical Center Beautiful Teach, Show, Love...
View Article48 Hours in Rwanda
Here are some of my images and tales from my first day in Rwanda. The schoolhouse is actually an enormous canvas tent separated into six classrooms. As I walked in the classroom, the entire class stood...
View ArticleThe Women of Rwanda
Claudine Mukakarisa “They kept raping me, even though I had maggots crawling out of me.” Claudine Mukakarisa, a 27-year old Rwandan woman, was recounting her life. Born in a Tutsi family of 12 children...
View ArticleRwanda, Past and Present
In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of killings at a rate of 10,000 people per day, and bludgeoned bodies literally lined the streets. When the Rwandan Patriotic Front (the current government of Rwanda) took...
View ArticleThe Good and the Bad
A little while ago, Nick’s blog included a comment by a student, Loren, who explained eloquently why she did not apply for the “win-a-trip” contest. She did not want to participate because she believed...
View ArticleWhere Are the Doctors?
“Can you take me back to the U.S. with you?” My friend Dr. Dan Rudasingwa is a general practitioner (GP) at King Faisal Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda. His family returned to Rwanda after 30 years of exile...
View ArticleWhat We Can Do to Help
One of the most common comments we get goes: “What can I do to help? You guys talk so much about the problems, and now I want to do something.” I don’t like to bring up problems without proposing...
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