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Quadruplet girls bring four times the joy.

Quadruplet girls bring four times the joy.

Quadruplets, Butaro Hospital - Partners in Health, Burera District, Rwanda. From five to nine children. Butaro Rwanda, quadrouplets, During the month of April 2009, at the Butaro Hospital in rural northern Rwanda,  an ultrasound of a 20th...

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Mobile Clinic in Rural Rwanda – Health and Solidarity

Mobile Clinic in Rural Rwanda – Health and Solidarity

The summit Mount Muhavura volcano is 4127 meters. The Rwandan village of  Nyamucucu is too small to be found on most maps. An extinct volcano,  Mount Muhavura, dominates the western sky.  The eastern border with Uganda is unmarked, somewhere...

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Do what you can, with what you have, when you have it:  Building Kigali Parents Secondary School.

Do what you can, with what you have, when you have it: Building Kigali Parents Secondary School.

While photographing cement pouring for construction at Kigali Parents Secondary School, the mantra “do what you can, with what you have, when you have it,” kept playing in my mind.  KPSS is being built with help from the Oregon...

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Orphans and Vulnerable Children: OVC-Rwanda

Orphans and Vulnerable Children: OVC-Rwanda

Shelter and food are provided for orphans by the non-profit, OVC-Rwanda, in Kigali. There are an estimated 860,000 orphans in Rwanda, as last reported by unicef.  The 1994 genocide, AIDS, and hard living conditions account for much...

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Clinton to Clinton – Mission Accomplished

Clinton to Clinton – Mission Accomplished

This afternoon William Clinton, from Kigali, Rwanda, received a signed photograph from U.S. President William Clinton. William Clinton - Rwanda, holding signed photo from President William Clinton - United States. Last January while photographing...

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Quadruplet girls bring four times the joy.

Quadruplet girls bring four times the joy.

Quadruplets, Butaro Hospital - Partners in Health, Burera District, Rwanda. From five to nine children. Butaro Rwanda, quadrouplets, During the month of April...

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Mobile Clinic in Rural Rwanda – Health and Solidarity

Mobile Clinic in Rural Rwanda – Health and Solidarity

The summit Mount Muhavura volcano is 4127 meters. The Rwandan village of  Nyamucucu is too small to be found on most maps. An extinct volcano,  Mount Muhavura,...

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Do what you can, with what you have, when you have it:  Building Kigali Parents Secondary School.

Do what you can, with what you have, when you have it: Building Kigali Parents Secondary School.

While photographing cement pouring for construction at Kigali Parents Secondary School, the mantra “do what you can, with what you have, when you have it,”...

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Orphans and Vulnerable Children: OVC-Rwanda

Orphans and Vulnerable Children: OVC-Rwanda

Shelter and food are provided for orphans by the non-profit, OVC-Rwanda, in Kigali. There are an estimated 860,000 orphans in Rwanda, as last reported by unicef. ...

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Clinton to Clinton – Mission Accomplished

Clinton to Clinton – Mission Accomplished

This afternoon William Clinton, from Kigali, Rwanda, received a signed photograph from U.S. President William Clinton. William Clinton - Rwanda, holding signed photo...

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Portland Scores in Rwanda with Soccer Balls for Children

Portland Scores in Rwanda with Soccer Balls for Children

Rusaro and her new soccer ball, Kigali, Rwanda. Three and a half year old Rusaro, in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali, is the recipient of the first of 65 soccer...

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Pedaling for Light – Sustainable Solutions, (part I)

Pedaling for Light – Sustainable Solutions, (part I)

How do you bring lighting to the 98.6% of rural Rwandan households that have no access to electricity?  The answer is entrepreneurship, micro finance,  pedal powered...

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Arthritis Treatment for Emmanuel’s Mother

Arthritis Treatment for Emmanuel’s Mother

Arthritis affects people worldwide - elders in Rwanda as well as the U.S. Arthritis affects people worldwide – elders in Rwanda as well as the U.S. For the...

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Autism Plays No Favorites

Autism Plays No Favorites

Maria suffers from autism. ASSIST-Rwanda administers a programs for her and other vulnerable youth. Autism is on the rise globally, in Rwanda or the United States,...

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Innovation, Infection, and Poverty Eradication, Partners In Health Style

Innovation, Infection, and Poverty Eradication, Partners In Health Style

View from Butaro Hospital, Burera District, Rwanda           Two types of medicine are being practiced at the Butaro hospital in northern Rwanda; one treats...

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TIG – Community Service for Prisoners

TIG – Community Service for Prisoners

TIG is a Rwandan program allowing people found guilty of participating in the genocide to serve all or part of their sentences doing community service. TIG, “Travail...

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Map of Rwanda

Map of Rwanda

Map of Rwanda

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What do you get when you cross a South African billy goat with a Rwandan nanny goat.?

What do you get when you cross a South African billy goat with a Rwandan nanny goat.?

A baby billy goat. All photographs copyright Adam Bacher.  Absolutely no usage without prior authorization.

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Rwanda is a country of great natural resources

Rwanda is a country of great natural resources

Rwanda is a country of great natural resources; not mineral deposits, not oil, not coal, not gem stones hidden in the earth. Rwanda’s natural resources are home...

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Millennium Village – Mayange   (10-17-2007)

Millennium Village – Mayange (10-17-2007)

In September 2000, the largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership...

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Nyamata Catholic Church – Genocide Memorial  (10-17-2007)

Nyamata Catholic Church – Genocide Memorial (10-17-2007)

When the genocide began on April 7th, 1994, many ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus took refuge in churches, believing militias would not enter these areas which were...

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Peace from Rwanda

Peace from Rwanda

Copyright Adam Bacher. All rights reserved. Absolutely no use without prior authorization.

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Child Soldiers – Lost Youth in the Congo  (10-09-2007)

Child Soldiers – Lost Youth in the Congo (10-09-2007)

In times of armed conflict, children are among the most vulnerable – as victims, hostages and worse. During the genocide in Rwanda, one million people were...

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A Day in the Life of 2 Rwandan Children: October 1st, 2007

A Day in the Life of 2 Rwandan Children: October 1st, 2007

At 5:30 in the morning, myself and Chysologue (my interpreter) were dropped off by motorcycle taxi to a family’s house, in a village where the few that have transportation...

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Ankole Cattle – A Cow Like no Others  (10-02-2007)

Ankole Cattle – A Cow Like no Others (10-02-2007)

On our way visit goat farms in the eastern province of Rwanda, a young man passed us taking his herd of ankole cattle to the local watering hole. The cadence of...

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