Buses and Beans
As the fellowship year concludes, I have been searching for a caption. Full disclosure: I don’t have one. Nor do I expect to arrive at a phrase that is inclusive of all the brilliant and challenging moments this year has been. So instead, I decided I would share a caption story. It is something small, […]
Menstrual Hygiene Management: A Path To Human Dignity
Some of my favorite moments this year have been unexpected conversations. Over Easter weekend, I was sitting by the local spring in Kibeho, the rural Rwandan community where Claude and I are serving our fellowship year, when a woman tapped me on the shoulder – Miriwe! Bonjour! Hello! – and sat down beside me. Meet […]
‘Kwicekagura’
Kwicekagura. Kwee-chee-ka-goo-ra. My ever-patient colleagues laugh, lounging on the motorcycles pulled into the front room of the office, as I mumble and repeat. Dusk is falling outside. Thunder rumbles ominously. Many of the words they have taught me in these informal, end-of-the-day lessons I have forgotten; many I never fully understood. This word, however, I […]