Posted in Batwa Village on Jul 29th, 2009
Our friends in Matara are keeping busy these days. Let me just show a bit of what they’ve been up to in the past couple of weeks…
The land receives good attention as the Batwa friends are preparing it for cultivation. You can see the squares of land, allowing room for irrigation once the [...]
Posted in Batwa Students Housing on Jul 16th, 2009
Community for Burundi is celebrating the graduation of our first two students! Join us in congratulating Evariste and Yves on completing their secondary education. They are now part of an elite group of Batwa… high school graduates.
Yves
Evariste
Posted in Batwa Students Housing on Jul 15th, 2009
The very first day in Burundi, the very first meeting, the very first friend…I want to tell you my story.
I was a little bit anxious. I am a very introverted person, social networking and making conversations with strangers is not my strong suit. But I had been praying and preparing for this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 11th, 2009
My story is very brief. Before coming to Burundi I didn’t really value relationships. I was all about what i could “get” or what someone could “give” me. And after arriving and meeting with my students and the Batwa people i saw how they valued their relationships with one another – and I couldn’t understand [...]
Posted in Batwa Students Housing on Jul 6th, 2009
Saturday night the students invited us to their home one last time. This was their final night of the school year, and they wanted to commemorate the occasion together. The next morning they would all return to their villages up country for the summer months.
Claude, J.J. and I drove up the [...]
Posted in Batwa Village on Jul 3rd, 2009
We read the Old Testament and read the stories of the Israelites. They fled the slavery of Egypt and harsh quotas of Pharaoh, the wandered in the desert for 40 years sustained by manna, water from a rock and an occasional feast of quail, and they stood perched on the banks of the Jordan [...]