Traveling to Rwanda involves careful preparation.  While there has been much development over the last ten years, especially, it still serves the traveler to be aware of things to take along on the trip, such as medications and other items that you may not be able to purchase.  It also means being aware of the [...]

The children's choir at St. John the Baptist Cathedral Sundays are always big days in the Rwandan Anglican Church. They start early and run long, marked by joyful and exuberant worship services. When we come to Rwanda it's important that we participate in worship services, not only to signify our unity together in [...]

For almost the whole time the Hanlons have been in Rwanda they have been getting around the country in a small, two-door Toyota Landcruiser that they bought off a guy who worked for a water cooperative. The 1992 SUV has over 200,000 km on the odometer, and it just seems to run and run. I've [...]

We've finally arrived and settled in on this particular journey to Rwanda, after what felt like a really long trip getting here.  Following the terror bombings in Brussels our usual way of getting here from Chicago ( 2 flights--straightforward) became three flights (two overnight) with long layovers.  It meant we had very little sleep on [...]