by Lou Haveman | Feb 1, 2018 | Founders Corner
Saturday, February one. Ten o’clock on Saturday morning at Kigali International Airport we discovered there are four flights scheduled for the day. Not exactly O’Hare International. Kenya Airways office was closed. Rwanda Airways was closed. We found someone who...
by Lou Haveman | Jan 31, 2018 | Founders Corner
Tuesday, January twenty eighth Spent the whole day in Kigali running after seed corn, vegetable seed, arranging transportation, getting the phone to work and purchasing a new printing cartridge for 60,000 Rwandan Frances, about $60.00. Here is how the 160 # of...
by Lou Haveman | Jan 30, 2018 | Founders Corner
Saturday, January twenty fifth. This was a day I wanted to stick around home and get a bunch of things done. Not to be. I had to run to Kigali again trying to nail down trucking for 49.6 ton of maize see. The phone is out and not to be repaired until Monday, if then....
by Lou Haveman | Jan 29, 2018 | Founders Corner
Friday, January twenty fourth. Every day is a challenge. We are working on getting seed. I spent well over $300,000 today buying bean, maize, vegetable, soya bean, and sorghum seed. We are importing 200 ton from Uganda, buying a lot locally, and as much as we can from...
by Lou Haveman | Jan 28, 2018 | Founders Corner
Wednesday, January twentieth second. We spent the whole day visiting communes and Bourgermeistres (counties and county supervisors or mayors). In Mabanza they want us to organize a food for work project on a 12 km stretch of road. Keith arrived on a new motorcycle for...
by Lou Haveman | Jan 27, 2018 | Founders Corner
Monday, January twentieth. Twelve agencies were represented at the NGO (Non-Governmental Organization meeting. For the first time we heard there had been an attack at Ruhengari, about sixty Interahamwe soldiers involved. Three volunteers were killed outright. This is...
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