Rwanda

To do humanitarian work, understand more about the genocide and how it affected people.

Make a difference.

Just returned from a week in Kigali and a week in a couple of places in Sudan (Lietnhom and Yei). Such a wonderful city! Very safe and one of the best kept places that I’ve seen in Africa to date. I would live in Kigali in a heartbeat.

I taught a video production “Boot Camp” to five employees of ALARM. Two from there in Kigali, two from DRC and one from Uganda. We expected to have at least one from Burundi and three from Sudan but those students were unable to come at the last minute. Still a great experience.

The “hill” on which the government offices and nice hotels are located is such a nice place. It’s also the location of the Hotel des Miles Collines – “the” Hotel Rwanda. The Genocide Memorial is a sobering and very well done exhibit. Not only does it chronicle the tragedy there in Kigali . . . but it serves as a memorial to other instances of genocide in our recent past.

All in all – well worth a visit

http://www.talesmag.com/rprweb/the_rprs/africa/rwanda.shtml

http://www.rwandatourism.com/home.htm

FREELANG – Kinyarwanda-English and English-Kinyarwanda online dictionary: http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/kinyarwanda.html

http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/546112/site_id/1#import

Hotel Rwanda of course. That is one my favourite movies and it would be an honour to pay homage to those brave people, slain by such a horrible event.