In just a few days, I leave for my sixth trip to Rwanda in just over three years. My first trip was with World Vision. From that trip came the idea of forming our own foundation which could work with organizations in Rwanda searching for international partners to further their mission and goals of helping […]
CONTINUE READING →It is good to be back in Rwanda. And it only took 53 hours to get here! New record for me. A flight delay at Washington DC Dulles meant that it took an EXTRA 24 hours to reach Kigali. But though I arrived a day late, it was to the smiling faces of those I […]
CONTINUE READING →Safe drinking water is a major problem in Rwanda. Everyone, regardless of age or infirmity, carries water. You see children eight years old carrying five- gallon yellow jerry cans to get water from a well. Water is life, and so many needlessly die from lack of safe drinking water. The chance of me personally dying […]
CONTINUE READING →The clearer you are on what you want, the more coincidence you will have in your life. On the third and last flight of the 10,000-mile journey that would bring me to Kigali, I was seated next to an African man. We were two strangers on a flight that was about one quarter full. I’m […]
CONTINUE READING →Ordinary Women Accomplishing the Extraordinary The drum I beat: We are all ordinary people who can accomplish the extraordinary. I’d like to tell you about some ordinary women accomplishing the extraordinary. My story is about how the world is a better place because of two people and the over 1,400 others they have inspired. During […]
CONTINUE READING →Feeding a Hunger: The Children of the Streets It is good to be back on the streets of Kigali. To recognize shops, feel the pulse of this city, read its newspapers and know that more progress has been made. The government appears more determined than ever to become a vibrant and important part of East […]
CONTINUE READING →Mankind has perpetuated evil over and over and over again. When will we stop? When will it end? Genocide definition: “a form of one-sided mass killing in which a state or other authority intends to destroy a group, as that group and membership in it are defined by the perpetrator.” – Frank Chalk and Kurt […]
CONTINUE READING →“Eat your vegetables! There are children in Africa who are starving.” If I heard that once, I heard it a hundred times as a child. And I would think, “No child would want to eat these peas I’m trying to hide under my plate!” I was wrong. I now know what a starving child in […]
CONTINUE READING →What a trip. Today (June 25th) during our 10 hour layover in Nairobi we visited a safari game park. It was beautiful and peaceful and a wonderful transition back into the world. We drove many miles and saw ostriches, giraffes, a lion peeking her head out of the grass, rhino, an angry water buffalo, monkeys, […]
CONTINUE READING →The Country Rwanda. It is known as the land of 1000 hills. It is also said to be the place where God comes to rest at night. And I can see why. This is a beautiful country, lush and green. It looks abundant and rich and can deceive you in what it appears it can […]
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