When we arrived we were met by the whole village and the women danced and singed to welcome us! Very nice and typically African.
This woman lost 12 of her 13 children in the genocide and barely survived herself. You can actually see the pain and hardship she has been through in her face. She now lives in the reconciliation village with her only surviving child.
Some boys were playing football. This goes to show that children are the same everywhere, no matter under which conditions they live. Playing is what they live for! These kids are too poor to have a football but they make due with a ball made out of... eh what is that exactly? (Normally it's made out of banana leaves)
You are met by this stare almost everywhere you go and it's a very illustrative example of what is lacking in the Rwandan society, trust - interperonal trust. To me this look expresses distrust and suspicion. However, as soon as you start interacting with people it disappears.
This is what all the houses in the village looked like. The government have decided on a common standard that all the houses have to meet, with the result that they all now look basically the same. ALL the 137 houses in the village looked the same and were the same size. Notice also the color of the soil. It's all black vulcanic rock in this area. The soil is very fertile and this part of the country is the most productive but at the same time also the most densly populated, more than 1000 people per square km!!!
Inside the newly built and not yet completed trauma centre. Here we had to listen yet again to the compulsary and neverending speeches. And after that, we had to stand in a circle and pray of course. That's just a normal day in Rwanda...
The local police really wanted to show us the weapons they'd confiscated. A hand grenade anyone? This is not exactly what I call safe storage. They could easily expload for any number of reasons because of the rust and bad shape their in.
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