by Lou Haveman | Jan 26, 2018 | Founders Corner
Thursday, January sixteenth. Today was a step back into time. I drove down roads I had been on two years ago when the first one million displaced Rwandans had been returning from Eastern Congo. I was seeing some of the same needs, meeting friends, and staring down the...
by Lou Haveman | Jan 25, 2018 | Founders Corner
Monday, January thirteenth. As I write I have a 40-year-old-man with a six-foot tree branch wiping out the spiders and cobwebs off the ceilings and walls. Works perfectly. I took a shower this morning, no hot water although the house is plumbed for it. It will...
by Lou Haveman | Jan 24, 2018 | Founders Corner
Friday, January tenth I am exhilarated and discouraged tonight. I am right in the middle of a chance to make a huge, maybe even a life and death difference, in the lives of the locals. There is so much to do to just get up and running. We do not have access to seed...
by Lou Haveman | Jan 23, 2018 | Founders Corner
Tuesday, January seventh It was almost 11:00 A.M. when I got up. I am rested from the over- night flight to Europe. I walked up to Badhoevendorp center, about ten minutes from the hotel. I had an excellent sandwich at a place called De Herbergh. I asked the...
by Lou Haveman | Jan 22, 2018 | Founders Corner
In 19994 and 1996 I completed two assignments in Rwanda. The first was a six-month period on the shores of Lake Kivu where one million souls were returning from Eastern Congo. Two years later, tens of thousands, in a second wave were returning home. I was there for a...