The Genocide Museum, Kigali, Rwanda.

These are photos of the outside of the Genocide museum.

 The torch is only lit for a short period during the memorial time.

 These are the mass graves

 Never again.

They have just started the wall of names, some estimates are almost 1 million were killed.

                Inside there are many displays with eye witness testimonies, I didn't feel it was respectful to take photos. You can go to there website to see more.  

              Kigali Genocide Museum, Rwanda

              

Mama Arlene and her animals.

 Mama's cows

 Mama's Goats and Sheep.

 Girls house'

 Kitchen for the whole orphanage, all charcoal fires.

 Chickens

 Rabbits

         All these animals are not pets, but are used to provide income for the orphanage, food for them and the community.

More Photos

 These are photos of the Jewish orphanage

Photos of the Hospitals we installed the chairs in.

Mama Arlene's Orphanage

Garden

 Boys House

 Entrance to the Pre-School

 The farm

 They showed us the water project, supplying not only the orphanage but the surrounding community.

 The Pre-School sand and water boxes.

 The Pre-school

 Boy's house

 The Nursery

 New born, two weeks old.

 Double decker cribs.

Made it to Amsterdam

         My flight from Kigali to Nairobi was delayed 30 min, the runway lights were not working. Had a short connection in Nairobi, we had to run from gate 4 to gate 9 on the other side of the airport, made it with minutes to spare, but there were a lot of sweaty passengers on that flight, I'm glad I packed a spare shirt in my carry on. Now I have a 6 hour layover in Amsterdam till my flight to Vancouver, arriving in Vancouver at 2.00 p.m. on Tuesday.
         This has been an incredible, but short trip, its going to take a while to absorb it all.

Thanks for all your prayers, now please pray my bags arrive with me.
             Blessings    Jeremy

Saturday October 22nd 2011

Went to “Heaven” twice today!

     Installed two chairs in a hospital west of Kigali.

On the way back we stopped at an orphanage run by an 88 year old lady from the States. She would put most of us to shame, with her energy and dedication to the orphans of Rwanda. We originally stopped by to tell her we could not put a dental clinic in her orphanage, but left with the promise to do just that. She and several staff and volunteers took us on a tour of her complex. From the road it looked like one small house, but behind it were a maze of buildings, a school, girls dorm, boys dorm, babies nursery, cow barn, chicken coup, pig sty, goats, rabbits and an extensive farm. She feeds the children and staff, but also feeds many of the community and sells at the market. She is also expanding to accept more children and is building a clinic for her kids and the community.

      She had met one of our team last night and had tried to get them to commit to putting a dental clinic in the new building. After much thought , Drew decided we could not help her. That is until we saw her operation and experienced her love for Rwanda first hand. You can go to her web site, but it does not do her justice, you can not meet this incredible woman and not love her.

                                Boys using computers send from a program where they are purchased as gifts from the west, Mama says they have been a God sent and they love them. 

Check out her Website.
   www.hopemadereal.org     

        We left there giving her our commitment to put the dental clinic there. That was one trip to heaven, once we arrived back in Kigali, we went to a restaurant run by an American Evangelical Christian, called “Heaven”. On arriving the host says “Welcome to Heaven” On Saturday night they have a buffet and run a movie. We had a great meal and watched “ The tree of life” with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, a very strange movie. Very surreal, watching a movie on an open air screen in Kigali, Rwanda.

                                       Mama showing us around

           Tomorrow is a day of rest, we are going to the Genocide museum in the afternoon.

            Keep the prayers coming,  Blessings   Jeremy