REPORTS from RWANDA

a journal of discovery, conviction, and walking with the poor and orphaned of Rwanda

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

What do others see?

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When others observe or listen to us, perhaps even without us noticing, what do they perceive? A listening learner or pontificator; C...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

HAPPY as we wanna be!

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Many familiar faces. Many familiar places. In Rwanda, people choose happiness. Why choose any other option?
Saturday, March 7, 2015

Bloody Sunday

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“SELMA, Ala. (AP) — President Barack Obama... and about 100 members of Congress are converging on Selma, Alabama, on Saturday for the 50th ...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

God's great dance floor?

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This morning at church, the key chorus line of one of the worship songs was:   ♪♫ ♪ ♪♫ ♪   ♥ ♪♫ ♪ ♪♫ ♪ I come alive on God's gr...
Monday, December 15, 2014

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“ Great minds discuss ideas;  A verage minds discuss events;  S mall minds discuss people. ” ― Eleanor Roosevelt (Let's talk ab...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

NObola in Rwanda

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Africa is not a country. It is 56 countries,... an enormous continent, larger than U.S. + Europe + China + India combined . Americans ar...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Hysteria and xenophobia gone wild

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This is profoundly embarrassing: The Most Ignorant American Ebola Panic of the Moment By   Joe Coscarelli This woman at the airport...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

The Bridge2Rwanda Scholars Program goes INTERNATIONAL

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The Bridge2Rwanda Scholars Program has opened new "on ramps" onto the Bridge! 
We have been often urged to build a Bridge2Mal...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Rwanda: Ahead of the Curve

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In recent weeks I have received numerous communications from scheduled visitors asking whether they should cancel their trip to Rwanda in li...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Rockin' Ramones: Hey! Ho! Let's go!

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Tommy Ramone, the last surviving member of the Ramones, joined his bandmates this month, but the Ramones rock on in Rwanda:
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Dez is back,... with great stories to tell about Marvin Lewis and fast livin'

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Last night I ate at Meze Fresh and hung out with my longtime friend, Desire, who I've known since he was a gifted student at Sonrise. Bu...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Cow Park

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In America, from New York to Los Angeles and many places in between, there are Dog Parks, where people with their pooches congregate for ...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Some times are just not the right time to try to figure out your camera. Oblivious!

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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

What the world needs now

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"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come aliv...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Simply Rwandaful!

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Although I have shamelessly "borrowed" this footage, every image, every place, (almost) every face, is familiar and part of living...
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Tom Allen
Kigali, Rwanda
I am reluctant to do the Bio thing. Nothing "about me" should be the focus here, except as this open journal may resonate with (or provoke) your own thoughts. But I offer this much: After 30 years as an attorney, I am now a typical Halftimer who is determined to move beyond success to significance. Inspired and convicted by three sons (Tommy, Nathan & Wesley) who live passionate and adventurous lives, I am now privileged to participate in the exciting social changes and development occurring in Rwanda and elsewhere in Africa, hoping to empower the desperately poor. But I must be very clear on this: I am just your average coward. Suffering and sacrifice are very foreign concepts to me. However, I now believe that life comfortably ensconced in a safe cocoon misses out on too much of what might be learned, experienced, and shared with others in the Majority World, many of whom are crying out in desperate need, and some of whom beam with smiles and contentment such as I have seldom seen. I want to know them and their lives.
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