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A Comfortable Start
... we were looking for.
Next, we grabbed sandwiches and went back to the office for a lunch before we headed to the FAWE (Forum for African Women Educationalists) girls school (http://www.fawe.org/activities/interve ntions/COEs/rwanda/index.php), where we will be doing our testing. Before arriving at the school, we stopped at the offices of a local NGO called HDI, the Human Development Initiative, to pick up the equipment (ergometers from Sweden mainly) that ...
Girls Leading Our World
... true but lead to discrimination against people who are HIV positive and prevents people from getting tested and consequently stigmatized. PCVS and Rwandan facilitators teamed up to explain in a mixture of Kinyarwanda and English how HIV/AIDS is transmitted and how HIV turns into AIDS. In a discussion group following these sessions on girl admitted that before camp she thought you could get HIV just from having an HIV positive person ...
Muraho Rwanda!
... plane ready to make the last leg to Kigali. However, there was a small hold up due to an unruly passenger. After a heated discussion about carry-ons, a slew of profanity in several languages, a stand off with security and finally a reluctant de-boarding we were off.
As soon as the doors to our plane opened, the thick moist scent of equatorial vegetation filled the air. My body was immediately alerted to the fact that I was far from the concrete jungle of NY; ...
Never thought I would DJ in Africa
... downtown”, where we were headed. Once downtown
Ivica toured me through the street where they offload a lot of goods
destined for shops in Rwanda. Most stores in Rwanda specialize in
very specific things. In that respect it reminded me a lot of Athens,
where there were blocks of stores that only sold computer parts, or
furniture.
We ended up in the block that housed
the audio stores. We entered the first shop where Ivica figured we
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My life as a Volunteer in Rwanda
... stronger education. The
technical school fills the gap after primary school by providing
basic job skills to young adults in the community in the hopes of
giving them access to jobs across the region that will provide them
with a living wage and a stronger future.
After the tour I dove right into the
work that I will be doing for the school with my time here. I have
three primary goals at the school. The first is to audit and bring up
to a ...


