Photos - Rwanda 2008

 
Favourite photos from Rwanda (picked by Amiee McCahon)
This was inside one of the Genocide memorial sites we visited. Over 10,000 people were murdered here. Mass graves exist outside and there is still a smell and feeling that made me feel unsettled.This was one of the better conditioned classrooms we visited. But as you can see they don’t have much. This class was learning about forgiveness as part of our project. The children were so eager and so polite.This day was amazing. We visited a school, handed out resources, gave some stickers out and did some painting with the children. The children were so thankful and some who could speak English were thanking us. It was great, I didn’t expect many of them When painting with the children at the school, it rained it time for us to wash our hands. It was all in the right timing and we all washed our hands in the rain to save their water they had collected from the well. It was a very humbling experience.This is the finished product of the children in Rwanda that I am holding up with Daniel Willis, our CEO. This was a lot of fun to do with the children.
This young girl read for us and really showed the effectiveness of our project. It was amazing to see her now able to read.We distributed some of the resources as part of our project to these children and they were delighted to receive them. Especially to receive their own Bible, knowing they will be able to read it in their own language.This young girl explained some memories she had of the genocide and then asked us to expand the project across the nation, so that many other children can reconcile and learn forgiveness like she has through our project.One of the local courts we vistied in Gisenyi – Rwanda. It is one of many set up to help process over 20,000 cases, which are still to be heard.This was our team with the Executive Secretary of the Reconciliation and Unity Commission in Rwanda. She extended a warm welcome to us, but also asked for the expansion of our project, praising the effects it has had so far, however expressing the great
These two boys were so joyful. Although they couldn’t understand English, they could understand actions, so we were having so much fun playing with them. Such beautiful gentle little souls.These children could not believe they were seeing us “Muzungu’s” (white people) in their rural village. They were delighted and excited and this day we had hundreds of kids flock to see us.This photo makes me smile. The children were such bundles of joy.This little girl wanted all of our attention. She was such a gorgeous little girl.This little boy was so cute, yet in such poverty stricken conditions, to see flies over him and a lack of cleanliness was a shock, yet really showed me the amount of need there is in Africa.
These are the conditions most children live in, yet Eva was such a delightful little girl.This is a picture of me helping one of the young girls paint and write her name on the canvas. I had so much fun doing this.This was on the side of the Street Kids Soccer game. These boys were too cute to not get a photo with. They were intrigued by us too.This was inside the door of one of the Genocide memorial sites. Clothes of the lives lost hang and their bones remain, neatly placed on shelves. It was definitely disturbing and not easy to see.This boy had so much skill with the soccer ball. Yet he could not afford a “Western” soccer ball, so he had made his own out of plastic bags and string. It was a lot of fun to play a bit of soccer with him though.
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