In the Kayonza district of Rwanda’s eastern province, a carbon offset program established by the U.S. based Clinton Foundation is helping to avert global climate change, increase food yields, and raise living standards for the local people. In Rwanda and Malawi alone, over 4 million trees have been planted through the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative, saving almost 450,000 tons of [...]
During the month of April 2009, at the Butaro Hospital in rural northern Rwanda, an ultrasound of a 20th week pregnant woman showed she was carrying twins. Three months later she returned to the hospital to be seen for a persistent cough. The timing couldn’t have been better as she [...]
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 between Nyamucucu’s high ridge top and the lush valley below. At 9:30 am a team of doctors and clinicians from the Butaro Hospital, run by the Boston [...]
The building of Kigali Parents Secondary School is being helped by the Portland, Oregon, non-profit Itafari Foundation. If you’re interested in helping this effort please visit, http://www.itafari.org/ Copyright 2009 Adam Bacher. All rights reserved. Absolutely no usage without prior authorization.
This post was entered on 11-19-2009. Since then OVC-RWANDA has undergone a number of changes. For an update please visit their website at: www.ovc-rwanda.org/en 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 of that number. Forty-five of them, from the streets of Kigali, [...]
This afternoon William Clinton, from Kigali, Rwanda, received a signed photograph from U.S. President William Clinton. Last January while photographing a micro finance story for Rwanda’s Coojad cooperative bank, I met a bartender named William Clinton. Leaving with his email in hand, I planned to send him a photo of President William Clinton, when I returned to the United States. [...]
Three and a half year old Rusaro, in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali, is the recipient of the first of 65 soccer balls donated from Portland, Oregon’s, Running Cheetahs soccer team, the Lauralhurst soccer league, friends and family. Thanks to all of you from Portland and beyond for your generosity. Copyright 2009 Adam Bacher. Absolutely no usage without prior authorization.
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 generators, portable pod lights, and an innovative company called Nuru (Swahili for light). With an award from the World Bank’s Lighting Africa competition, Nuru spent the past year working directly with rural Rwandans, co-creating [...]
Arthritis affects people worldwide – elders in Rwanda as well as the U.S. For the next three weeks I’ll be staying with my good friend Emmanuel, in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The oldest in his family, Emmanuel willingly cares for his younger brothers and sisters, some nieces and nephews, and two adopted children. His friends joke that his home [...]
Autism is on the rise globally, in Rwanda or the United States, vaccinated or not vaccinated. Unable to make eye contact, 7 year old Maria dances through a room of 35 orphans, their schooling sponsored by members of a small community in Germany. Each time she passes, a hand soft in youth reaches for mine. She runs it to my [...]
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 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 [...]
A baby billy goat. All photographs copyright Adam Bacher. Absolutely no usage without prior authorization.
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 grown – its people. Fifteen years ago the country was the scene of one of the humaniy’s worst genocides .One million people were killed in the course of one-hundred days. Today Rwanda is an [...]
In September 2000, the largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty. They set out a time-bound series of targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), with a deadline of 2015 for meeting them. These goals are quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty, [...]
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 perceived as sanctuaries. At the Nymata Catholic Church, located in the Bugesera district, 35 km south of the capital of Kigali, 10,000 people were killed in and around the grounds between April 14 [...]
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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 killed in the span of one-hundred days.The killers did not discriminate;men, women, or children, any who were identified as from the “wrong” ethnicity were killed. With the fall of the genocidal regime, perpetrators (genocidairs)and organizers [...]
At 5:30 in the morning, myself and Chysologue(my interpreter) were dropped offby motorcycle taxi to a family’s house, in a village where the few that have transportation may have an old gearless bike. I spent my time there following and photographing,“the day in the life” of two children, brother and sister. Sunrise – an hour after I arrived to Claudette’s [...]
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