a crash course in Kinyarwanda

Priscilla, Betty and Jillian from the Child Survival Project, and John, on staff with Compassion.

The word for “hello” in Kinyarwanda, the native language of Rwanda, is “Muraho,” and it is the only word I remembered from my first trip in 2008.  I am trying very hard to pick up a few simple phrases, but the words are all composed of seemingly random and very long strings of consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel that [...]

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mamas & babies

The CSP project facilitator (I forgot her name, but you can see she is an angel), baby Rhea and Rosine.

Today we drove up to Meshero to visit the Child Survival Project that is funded by Southview.  The Child Survival Program is Compassion’s early intervention to help save the lives of babies and mothers in poverty, by partnering with local churches to provide prenatal care, nutrition, infant survival training, spiritual guidance and a supportive community. Meshero [...]

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