Pictorials

Alexi

Being invited into a person's home is a wonderful complement. Being invited into the home of a child whom you have sponsored for 5 years is a special gift.

Better Than TV

Amazed by the fact that they could see themselves in my camera's screen, the children crowd for a chance to see themselves.

Parents

This is as close to a school assembly as you will ever find in the Rwandan countryside.

A Beautiful Place

The Rwandan countryside.

Wayman & Rory

What inspires to successful businessmen to leave the comforts of North America and invest in Africa? Their love for people, their respect for the insatiable human spirit of survival, their willingness to invest in things other than themselves. These two men reside in Vancouver but live in the world.

A Child-Headed Household

Four girls live here. The baby has AIDS and will eventually die. The oldest is 16 and has had to drop out of school. The others are on their own throughout the day. The house they live in is broken down. When they were discovered, they were brought into Food for the Hungry's program. Within a year they lived in a new home. Their village had taken responsibility for their welfare. And they received an income from their involvement in a local cooperative established in their village for parentless children. In a context like that, I often pulled out my harmonica to provide some comic relief.

One in 50,000

His neighbours participated in rounding up all the Tutsi's in his village. Bulldozers dug the pits. 50,000 died during those days. Everyone thought it was 50,000 plus one. Having been shot in the head, he lay beneath the bodies of others for over a day. When the second night came, he realized he could not stay there and eventually escaped.

The Human Spirit

The school was so run down, parents were afraid it would collapse on their children. Challenged to donate 51% of the total cost of a new school, hundreds of adults carried large rocks on their heads to build the foundation of this building. They built it with their own hands and celebrated an achievement, they themselves never believed possible.

1994 - Rwanda

I sat on this wall watching women struggling to survive by selling products they had made. On the other side of this wall is a mass grave with body parts still exposed. I remember the clawed hand protruding from the ground and not able to fathom the contrast of what I was seeing.

1994 - A Genocide

I walked through this community. Children were everywhere but there were virtually no adults. The vast majority had been executed. The rest had fled. This was a village of child-headed households.