Archive for February, 2009

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

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

 Two types of medicine are being practiced at the Butaro hospital in northern Rwanda; one treats diseases of infection, the other treats the disease of poverty.Using local building techniques, materials, and labor, construction of a new hospital building is now underway  in northern Rwanda’s Burera district, near the border with Uganda.Lush terraced hillsides, subsistence farming, and Lake Burera dominate the [...]

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 d’Intérêt Général,” is a French acronym that means “works of general service.” The program is normally referred to as community service, but it is not the same kind of community service we see [...]

Map of Rwanda

Map of Rwanda

Map of Rwanda