Last night we went out to dinner and had fantastic Indian food in Kigali. This morning we had breakfast, went for a short walk, then we went to the Genocide Memorial Museum. Needless to say that it was an emotional experience to hear videos of survivors as they recall the days of the genocide, how they lost loved ones (many witnessed as family members were murdered). There was also a mass grave on site which holds over 258,000 victims of the genocide.
We then went to an Italian restaurant for lunch.
After that we went back to the house, loaded up the van and came to the village (about an hour outside of the city). Some of the small villages we passed along the way were incredible to see...
The Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village that has been built is amazing. Many of the children were eager to speak with us, and during dinner, the seven of us broke off into pairs so we can interact and talk with them. Many speak English well, some better than others. It was interesting to speak with them about what they like about the village, what their favorite subjects are, etc.
After dinner, the girls (Dana and Zoe) stayed in their room and the four of us took the servers and other equipment up to the high school and started to work... trying to get as much IT work done as we know the electricity will be out of service tomorrow at 7:30am.
I haven't been able to blog as much as I wanted to, I hope to pick that up tomorrow, now that we have wireless connectivity.
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