Can you reconcile an entire country in which an unimaginable bloodbath took place? Live again with a neighbor, even when he has killed someone and was not sent to prison? Rwanda shows that you can. Although reconciliation is in fact…
Polina Usabyeneza is an experienced PICO Rwanda leader from Mumeya. Polina visited Nyange and offered testimony about her experience with community organizing in Mumeya: “I was born in 1978 in Mumeya, and I grew up without a clinic, a school…
In February, Mumeya leaders received an invitation from Senate President Dr. Ntawukuliryayo Jean Damascene to attend a meeting with them and discuss the government’s commitments to complete the health center. Ten Mumeya leaders, along with Nyange new leaders, held an…
Uwimana Annociata is a PICO Rwanda leader from Nyange village, western Rwanda. After several months of training, she is excited to see how one-to-one conversations and the priorities that surface can result in an environment in which Nyange residents themselves…
Published Feb. 9, 2012 in The Daily Progress By Bob Gibson It has been nearly 18 years since Rwanda’s latest genocide resulted in more than half a million people being killed, in an East African nation the size of Maryland. Much…
This fall Mumeya leaders celebrated completion of six more rooms of their first health center, building the bricks themselves, completing the roof and plastering the walls. Now they have room for a laboratory, a pharmacy and in-patient capacity! When the…
In April a group of Mumeya leaders once again took action on behalf of their community, putting up the walls and completing the roof for six more rooms at the health center! Although they have won the commitment of Kirehe’s…
Thanks for your support ELCA congregations and PICO Network Federations CRCR Executive Director John Rutsindintwarane spent the summer making presentations and preaching at Lutheran Parishes and PICO affiliates to share the incredible work of Rwandan leaders. At Brooklyn Community United,…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 4, 2010 Contact: John Baumann, SJ, Founding Director and Director of Special Projects: 510-655-2801 Opening of Rural Rwandan Health Clinic Highlights Innovative Development Model in Africa Congregations Rebuilding Community in Rwanda celebrates their successful grassroots…
