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Common scene - Children caring for younger siblings.
Another common scene - ladies carrying baskets on their heads. These were probably on their way to or from the market that day.
My awesome tailor :)
This was at the market (there's more market pics from a few weeks ago). They just had sort of a...
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Uploaded on Aug 2, 2010
Awesome Rwandan stamps!
Sending mail from Rwanda was an interesting experience, since we didn't speak Kinyarwanda and...
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Uploaded on Aug 2, 2010
"One Million Women & Girl's March for a Better Future"
Rwanda is very pro-women. They have a higher percentage of women in parliament than any other...
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Uploaded on Aug 2, 2010
Melania's kitchen
This was a smaller structure made of raw materials - mostly mud and cow dung mixed together. Their...
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Charles and his lovely mother, Melania
Inside Charles' house. A few days prior to our visit he had told us the story of how he'd survived...
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Uploaded on Aug 2, 2010
All of us outside Charles' house
Sung Kyu, Sharon, Roberta, Melania (Charles' mom), Charles, Kaylen, Charles' niece, me, Melissa
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Uploaded on Aug 2, 2010
Inside Charles' house
As we sat down and before we left, Charles said a small prayer in thanks for being able to meet and...
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Uploaded on Jul 5, 2010
Umudugudu!
A really nice walk into a village (village = 'umudugudu'). We were invited to visit the house of our...
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Uploaded on Jul 5, 2010
The best team one could ask for.
These guys were so, so awesome. Not just in the work that we were doing, but as...
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Uploaded on Jun 30, 2010
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We went for a walk in the rural area near Kibungo, and sooo many kids started following us!...
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Uploaded on May 12, 2010
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Samosas at the local market in Kibungo!! They're everywhere! Apparently some decades ago a lot of...
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Local market in Kibungo - this was crazy. It was a huge open area where people gathered twice a week...
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Local market -- people literally stared at us. So many times we heard "Mzungu!!" (white...
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Roberta, Sung Kyu and I on a walk near our hotel. Met a lot of cool people. They were all...
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At a local mall -- Dr. McLean randomly met someone working with UNHCR (United Nations refugee agency)...
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Uploaded on May 12, 2010
