Parents taking children to school.
A young lady carrying a baby was positively beaming when she saw us outside of African Evangelical Enterprise (AEE) Headquarters.
One of the many ladies selling pineapple. Those are really sweet and juicy.
Can you balance a big bucket on your head, carrying a string of fish on one hand, and speaking on the mobile phone with another?
The young people at the University of Rwanda are just like the students at other universities in other countries. Except that they seem leaner.
A beautiful young women peeling potatoes at one of the houses where we plan to install a solar power system. This village is less than an hour from Kigali. Yet the whole region has no electrical power. Starting around six, even before the sun sets, the inside of the house is plunged into darkness. How do you cook, eat, and do housework? How do the students do their homework? The reality is they don’t.
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Thank you for sharing the photos and your thoughts. One of my strongest memories of attending the Hong Kong International Film Festival involved attending a screening of "Hotel Rwanda" at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre and weeping several times during and after the screening. It's amazing that after all that carnage, there still was a country and people -- and that in the intervening years, it actually has fared much better than expected.
In what can seem another lifetime, I was an Africanist -- and one of my housemates/colleagues was a Rwandan specialist. Before the 1995 Rwandan massacre, the country was considered one of the richest in East Africa. I haven't kept up as much as I would like with African affairs but isn't that still the case? Even so though, I can imagine how much of the country -- and many of the people -- can seem poor in the eyes of, say, Hong Kongers.
Re a whole region being without electricity power: it's amazing, isn't it, how people in some parts of the world can't imagine contemporary life without the internet and smart phones while other parts of the same world still remain without any electricity power at all.
They are very poor and underdeveloped these days. Even compared with countries like Uganda and Kenya. But it is very clean, both physically and governmentally. And it is very hopeful.
They are very poor and underdeveloped these days. Even compared with countries like Uganda and Kenya. But it is very clean, both physically and governmentally. And it is very hopeful.
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