Andrea shares about traveling to Rwanda to meet her sponsor child, learn about the country’s tragic history, and enjoy the culture and excursions.
Travel Story - Rwanda
- When we can travel again, everyone should travel to Rwanda
- Was sponsoring a child in Rwanda and wanted to meet that child
- World Vision was the sponsoring organization, so they helped guide her through the process and provided some staff in country as points of contact
- Her sponsor child had survived the genocide as a 4 year old!
- Couldn’t change her past, but was able to be a part of her future
- Learn the history
- 1994 Genocide
- Hutu people group and the Tutsis people group
- 800,000 people died, mostly Tutsis, from April - July 1994
- The country has done a good job of working to rebuild and overcome the genocide
- Many memorials around the country
- Nyamata church memorial
- You can go to the crypt and see how they died
- Important to feel how terrible things in history happened so that we can prevent them from happening again
- Basket weaving social entrepreneurship day trip
- Got to visit a Rwandan family and have a home cooked dinner with them
- Also went on a gorilla trek
- A day pass into the park is $1500
- Worth it because it’s good for the local economy and good for the gorillas
- Grouped by trekking ability
- You can hire someone to carry your bag
- Get no closer than 20 feet...but you can’t make a gorilla obey that
- Virunga mountains - on the border of the Congo
Wish You Were Here
Cheryl: Chocolatería San Ginés, Madrid, Spain
Andrea: Donnie Chin International Children's Park, Seattle, WA
Ryan: Manito Park, Spokane, WA
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Book recommendation: Software of the Mind, Geert Hofstede