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Escape of the Week: Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
Blog: The Adventures of D - 11 January 2012
Escape of the Week: Volcanoes National Park, RwandaLess than a two-hour drive from the rolling hills of Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, is Volcanoes National Park. Also known as Parc National des Volcans, it spans 77-miles in the Virunga [...]d travels 'round
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Going the Distance: Expanding the Reach of Microfinance in Rwanda
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 24 October 2011
By Whitney Webb, KF16, Rwanda One of the biggest challenges of providing access to financial services to those living in poverty is the actual logistics of expanding the services into some of the most remote areas of the world. 92% of Rwandans live in rural areas.
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The Kiva Parachute: Landing in Rwanda
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 14 September 2011
By Whitney Webb, KF16, Rwanda Things became real when I stepped out of my NYC apartment for the last time and hailed a cab to the airport. It was one thing to say (repeatedly) "I'm moving to Rwanda to do a fellowship in microfinance. I'm so excited.
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Souvenir Saturday: Woven Bowl from Rwanda
Blog: GoBackpacking - 15 January 2011
I was especially struck by the crafsmanship and colors of the woven bowls.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog.Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Friday Flashback: Press Trip to Rwanda
Blog: GoBackpacking - 24 September 2010
It’s been about 6 months since I had the chance to visit Rwanda as part of a press/social media trip. Looking back, I still feel incredibly lucky to have had the opportunity to hop aboard Ethiopian Airlines and jet off to eastern Africa for a week. The jetlag was rough, and we had a tiring [...]---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog.Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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The Fellowship that wasn’t
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 30 July 2010
By Ron Turley KF11.5 I see that Kiva has begun to recognise those of us who are/have been fellows. On our lenders page, we have a distinctive Kiva “K” on our pictures, links to Kiva Fellow blogs we have posted and the name of the country and MFI with which we worked. This is very [...]
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The first night in Rwanda
Blog: The Adventures of D - 15 July 2010
Once JD and I had arrived at Sports View, we dropped our bags in our rooms and set off to find the other members of our press trip — Anna, Jason and Adam. We only found Anna. When I had received the names of the people on the trip, I was elated to see Anna [...]
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My first glimpse of Africa
Blog: The Adventures of D - 14 July 2010
I picked 14 K on the Brussels flight to Kigali on purpose. I wanted a window seat and to spread my legs out in front of me. I never get the chance to sit in the first seat in the economy class, but this time, the Plane Gods were on my side. The trip to [...]
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The Home of Former President Habyarimana
Blog: GoBackpacking - 19 May 2010
On the morning of my last day in Rwanda, I visited the old home of former President Juvenal Hayarimana. When his plane was shot down over the compound in 1994, killing him and the president of Burundi, it was the spark needed to usher in the genocide. It was both eery and interesting to walk [...]--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Photo Essay: Welcome to Hotel Rwanda
Blog: GoBackpacking - 13 May 2010
During the 1994 genocide, a thousand people sought refuge at the Hotel Des Mille Collines.--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Remembering the 1994 Tutsi Genocide
Blog: GoBackpacking - 12 April 2010
Traveling to Rwanda, I felt unsure about how I would see the capital.--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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First Impressions On the Drive to Ruhengeri
Blog: GoBackpacking - 1 April 2010
It was the serendipitous moments which would often make the day's highlight reel.--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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A way to help
Blog: Drink the Water - 15 March 2010
I've gotten some questions about how to support WE-ACTx and the other organizations that I had the chance to work with on this trip.WE-ACTx is about to throw two major fundraisers, one in San Francisco and the other in Boston. You can attend either event or donate online. Authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman will host the San Francisco event, and there will be lots of pretty bags made by the women at Ineza for sale, so it should be neat.
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Newsworthy rumors
Blog: Drink the Water - 13 March 2010
The national and international media have not covered the most recent grenade attacks in the Southern and Eastern provinces of Rwanda. The justification seems to be, because acts of terrorism occur frequently along the borders of Rwanda, they aren't actually newsworthy. And so, these events (as well as some closer to Kigali) officially remain rumors.
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#Rwanda Trip: The 6-Day Itinerary
Blog: GoBackpacking - 8 March 2010
In less than two weeks, I'll be exploring the Rwandan countryside in the heart of Africa.Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plus audio interviews and a blog.
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Ideals
Blog: Drink the Water - 6 March 2010
Today we spoke to a couple hundred orphaned and/or HIV positive children about how to use the law to protect themselves.
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Some edible (packaged) Rwandan things
Blog: Drink the Water - 6 March 2010
Pilipili sauce, a pure hot pepper oil, the point of which seems to be to cause physical pain without actually adding flavor (left).
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And so on
Blog: Drink the Water - 5 March 2010
As people here try to read into recents events to try to predict whether all of this is the start of another ethnic/socioeconomic civil war or just the start of an election season, life goes on.
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Memoriam
Blog: Drink the Water - 5 March 2010
We visited the Gisozi Genocide Memorial where more than 250,000 people are buried in mass graves. A mass grave lies beneath this concrete slab.
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In honor of the upcoming election
Blog: Drink the Water - 4 March 2010
Two more grenade attacks just reported. I am starting to notice without much comfort that many articles on the subject make sure to mention, Kigali is among the safest capital cities in the world. I don't remember the conditional "capital" there before. No new travel advisories resulting so far.From the U.S. State Department Warden Message:
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Past and present
Blog: Drink the Water - 4 March 2010
It's easy to notice people convicted of genocide crimes, because they are dressed in bright pink. The irony of prison garb the color of rose petals, soap, and princess dresses is probably not lost on the prisoners.
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Fellow passengers
Blog: Drink the Water - 3 March 2010
We had to get from the Remera office to the Centreville office, so we took the city bus. They are essentially the size of the sort of Volkswaagen vans that a band of five would use to roam the United States, but instead somehow crammed with five rows of four and two seats with additional fold-down seats in the aisle. Since these aisle seats are always taken, no one has legroom and everyone in the aisle must stand up and fold their seat at each stop.
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Stealing souls
Blog: Drink the Water - 2 March 2010
Until two years ago, Rwanda was officially Francophone--the enfranchised spoke both Kinyarwanda and French. Then President Kagame declared (after recognizing the economic advantages, not to mention some political upheaval) that Rwanda would be Anglophone. Of course, the transition could not be immediate. Given my limited French, in meetings with NGOs and aid organizations, I've relied at times on an interpreter.
