Archive for the ‘Rwanda’ Category

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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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? ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Gorillas in my Midst (10-07-2007)

There are approximately 350 mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) left in the world....

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