Memorial

March 16th, 2010 by Ryan Hirons

March 16, 2010 3:30pm

Yesterday was orientation and the Kigali Memorial. Orientation was great, had a lot questions answered. Clair is amazing and so is Willy, my bosses ;)

The Memorial was really, really well put togethe. The main memory that I have is at the end of the tour there was a section for Rwandas Lost future Hero’s (or something along that line), a memorial to the murdered children that were lost. There were several Rwandan children and facts on how they lived, likes, favourite person and at the end how each one was killed. The on that hit home the hardest was a 5 year old boy who family had donated his picture to the memorial and listed all his favourite drink, toy and activity. At the end his last words were: “Don’t worry UNAMIR will come and save us.” Died: “Shot in the head”.

Today we went to several orphanges and I got to see the school I will be teaching at. There were several kids under the age of 5 that were HIV+, really heart breaking to see. FVA is teaching all Rwandans about HIV/AIDS prevention and is making quite some progress. Alomost out of time here at the cafe. Will try to post again soon.

Ryan

(sorry for the typos, had to go fast!)

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