{"id":209611,"date":"2018-01-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/?p=209611"},"modified":"2018-01-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T00:00:00","slug":"rwanda-diary-jan-22-23-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/?p=209611","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Diary &#8211; January twentieth second &#8211; twenty third"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Wednesday, January twentieth second.<\/h2>\n<p>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 our team. He also brought $50,000 cash in $100 bills.<\/p>\n<p>We had lunch in the village: a loaf of bread, several roasted bananas, shishkabob, and roasted corn with some soft drinks.<\/p>\n<p>I was in Rustiro with Dave (Dauwidi in Kiyarwandize). This commune overlooks Lake Kivu and is at 2,300 meters, a fantastic view and location. The Bougermeistre was a real jerk. Between his office and home are two buildings full of prisoners with hardly enough room to stand let alone sleep. As I walked I hear their voices, return their stares, and feel their pain and hatred. If I had to be responsible and that close to this tension I would probably also be a jerk. He would not look or talk directly to me. Rubero thought he was in some kind of shock. We got home about six P.M. and had another fantastic meal.<\/p>\n<h2>Thursday, January twenty third.<\/h2>\n<p>More meetings in various communes. We had six people around the supper table tonight. Just to give you an idea, here they are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Jim Zylstra &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>American, Divorced, Burundi Director for Dorcus Aid\u2026Dutch based NGO.<br \/>\n<em>Jan &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>Unmarried, Regional Director for Dorcus Aid.<br \/>\n<em>Dave Van Bergal<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Single, Canadian volunteer, age 23, worked in a halfway house.<br \/>\n<em>Pete<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Single, 27, Wants to be a farmer, keeps engaged internationally.\u00a0Worked in Indonesia and Central America.<br \/>\n<em>Bill Buwalda<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Canadian, married, lives in Kenya, volunteer, 34, drove truck over for us.<br \/>\n<em>Pete<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Canadian, short term volunteer, brother-in-law to Bill.<br \/>\n<em>Myself<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; American, 51, retired missionary, real estate broker\/businessman who feels he does not fit well in this group of young, sharp, \u201ccrazy\u201d but wired.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motivated and fun group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3217\" src=\"https:\/\/bizconectworld.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/a51-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3218 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bizconectworld.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/a52-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3219\" src=\"https:\/\/bizconectworld.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/a53-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3220 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bizconectworld.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/a54-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3221\" src=\"https:\/\/bizconectworld.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/a55-300x200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3222 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bizconectworld.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/a56-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3223\" src=\"https:\/\/bizconectworld.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/a57-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3224 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bizconectworld.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/a58-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 our team. He also brought $50,000 cash in $100 bills. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":209580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19],"class_list":{"0":"post-209611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-founders-corner","8":"tag-rwanda-journal","10":"with-featured-image"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/a55-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/a55-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Lou Haveman","author_link":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/?author=5"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}