Contrast

Our work days the past couple of weeks have seen one extreme of lifestyles to another. As we have traveled to remote villages (Umudugudu's) and seen the poorest of the poor, wearing dirty rags as the only set of clothes they have, sleeping in a dirt floor hut on a straw mat, rats biting them during the night, eating one meal a day of cassava root or maybe potato and getting water from mud puddles. Then going into Kigali to meet with government workers, who are driving Land Crusiers and Lexis, eating at huge buffets with plates piled high enough to be an art form, and living in houses that look like they belong on the French Riviera. It's almost to much for your senses to take in and process. It begs to ask the question, Why? With millions of dollars coming into the country, why should there be such poverty? Such a drastic difference in life styles just boggles the mind.
But tomorrow, althrough it is going to be another long day, should be very rewarding as we bring 20 children and their caregivers into the hospital at Nyamata for their checkups and physicals. We have hired a taxi, an 18 passenger van, to pick up a load from two Sectors, Ken will be making two trips bringing people in with the village land crusier and Tim will be gathering a load in their vehicle. Hopefully all will arrive before noon and some should be in as earliy as 7:30. Then we will do the whole process in reverse. So it will be a lot of work for a lot of people but at the end of the day we should have the children about ready to come to the village. It is just finishing all the paperwork after tomorrow.

Not In Vain
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson