A carpet of tea plantation laid out on the side of a gentle sloping hillside with misty hills spread out into the distance.
A carpet of tea plantation laid out on the side of a gentle sloping hillside with misty hills spread out into the distance. Rural Rwanda Land of 1000 Hills farms banana and hills with terracing, woodland and agriculture mists over the distant hills. Farmstead huts and enclosures. Rwanda is a place of the most beautiful landscapes and people and a country called by some the Land of 1000 Hills. Rwanda is a country that has surmounted the insurmountable. It moves forward from genocides of monumental proportion, most recently that of 1994 when over one million died in a matter of weeks. There is a silence that speaks of this pain. There is a stare that questions what we want from them and what we have to offer. Foreigners are called Mzungos which translates as 'aimlessly wandering'. We visited the Genocide Museum in Kigali where streams of young processed round the extraordinary and heart wrenching exhibit, sensitively , beautifully and truthfully presented. Their tears and quiet courage shouted from the inner recesses of their hearts. This will not happen again and much needs to be recognised and learned which these clear and wonderful souls will rise to. Bless them all. Rwandan villagers meet among a forest glade. They could be organising the monthly Umaganda. The community service project that every household contributes toward. A project that is rolled out throughout the country which performs community service on a monthly basis. Every family sends one member, no matter what status, wealth, tribe, caste, creed, gender to work together with other families from the local commune who agree collectively on a service community project and carry it out on a one day a month basis. It is no longer acceptable to speak of Huttu or Tutsi. All are Rwandan, one family and one country.
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