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Victoria Dunning
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Submitted by Victoria Dunning | Friday, January 12, 2007 - 3:45 PM | Region Africa
Musician of Hope
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Betty's Courage
Submitted by Victoria Dunning | Friday, January 12, 2007 - 2:15 PM | Region Africa
Kigali, Rwanda Betty Gahima, founder and director of our grantee partner Benishyaka Association, is tall, proud, strong, and determined.
This accomplished woman of the world, who holds leadership positions in national and regional networks, is also warm, kind, compassionate, and thoughtful.
She greeted us with warm hugs.
Following Rwanda's bloody genocide in 1994, she and several other women felt compelled to help the women and children who were widowed, orphaned, traumatized, and displaced, in any way they could.
Benishyaka ("courage" in Kinyarwanda, Rwanda's chief spoken language) Association began by establishing resettlement villages in Rwanda.
Returning to the shattered country they called home, children and women struggled to find permanent shelter.
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Hotel Rwanda
Submitted by Victoria Dunning | Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 6:35 PM | Region Africa
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