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  • Hungry to help

    I have never worked in a place where I am as equally passionate about the friendships I have formed and the work I do. That is Rwanda: there is a passion; an intensity; a hope in people that I rarely experience on a daily basis as I do every time I am here. I arrived […]

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  • Trip to Rwanda Makes Sixth Visit – Follow the Journey

    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 […]

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  • Rwanda Photographic Exhibition & Artist Reception

    Rwanda – Return to Peace World Forestry Center 4033 SW Canyon Rd Portland OR 97221 May 26th to September 1st Artist Reception June 19th, 5:30 – 8:00 pm Wine and appetizers served An exhibit of photographs will be on display this summer, showing the recovery of the African country of Rwanda from the 1994 genocide, […]

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  • Obstacles

    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 […]

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  • Itafari Giving Challenge: Ends Soon!

    You still have a chance to help!! We only have until this Friday, January 31st, to take part in the Parade Magazine Challenge. This magazine is sponsoring America’s Giving Challenge and will be donating eight $50,000 grants to the top charities that are donated to. The eight top charities with the most donors, NOT the […]

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  • Itafari Giving Challenge

    Dear Friends, Clients and Colleagues, I need your help! Until January 31st, Parade Magazine, in partnership with Network for Good, is sponsoring America’s Giving Challenge. Parade Magazine will be donating eight $50,000 grants to the top charities that America (YOU) donate. All we need is donors. The eight top charities with the most donors, not […]

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  • When a Child is No Longer a Child

    Parents the world over want the best for their children. Depending on the culture and opportunities, a child can have the weight of the world on his or her shoulders or conversely, a trouble-free existence where every need is cared for without the child’s awareness. In Rwanda, both extremes are evident. But the latter is […]

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  • How to Build a School: Itafari by Itafari

    You too can build itafari by itafari! Click here to sponsor a brick that will be engraved with your name. When is a brick not just a brick? When it becomes a powerful symbol of possibility. When the word itafari spoken in Rwanda brings with it awareness: Of hope. Of strength. Of change. When the […]

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  • Thirst For Change

    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 […]

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  • A Man Named Ita

    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 […]

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