Equal Challenges

The first and second half of my fellowship could not have been more radically different for me.  For the first few months, I was thrown onto a construction site in rural Rwanda.  I watched each day as four houses and the surrounding landscape quickly came to completion.  I met many local Rwandan workers, whose company […]

What I Learned While Building A House

A year ago I didn’t expect to live in Rwanda and be working in health care, but there I was.  All this happened after I got a Global Health Corps fellowship to work with MASS Design Group. For the past few months I have been helping them oversee the construction of a doctors’ housing project in the country’s northern […]

Good Morning, Sir

My daily walk to work always feels like a grand event. Within minutes of emerging from my home, the neighborhood children announce my arrival with joyful shouts of “Muzungu! Muzungu!,” a term used to describe foreigners. My procession up the hill is usually accompanied by two or three of the children brazen enough to follow […]