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Sister

nobody@flickr.com (camera_rwanda) — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:43:15 -0800

In between prayers during the fellowship gatherings, the sisters enjoy laughter in community.

This image was taken for a not-for-profit that has changed its named, focus, and mission to KEZA.

Remera, Kigali.
Rwanda. Central Africa.
September 30, 2006.

Sisters: 2nd Generation

nobody@flickr.com (camera_rwanda) — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:01:36 -0800

camera_rwanda posted a photo:

Mama Mukantaganzwa Rose, her youngest children, and eldest daughter Solange Nyinawumuntu in their home. Many of the images in this series reflect the sisters and their families requests. This is one such image. Sister Rose wanted her family to stand in front of this tapestry which she really treasures. Sister Rose is one of the sisters who really warmed to me instantly. I suppose her motherly warmth and experience explains why.

Taking portraits of the sisters and their children inside their small homes was a challenge. Often, there was not enough space to accomodate them and me, the
photographer, so we had fun pushing chairs to the side, or having me crouch or stand on top of tables, etc. I have to say, though the sisters often look serious in
these images, for the most part, there was no short supply of laughter. When you look at these photographs, I want you to realize that the sisters took great pride
in sharing their lives with me. I am grateful for their generosity.

I consider Rose a sort of matriarch, and I look forward to watching her children grow up, hopefully with more opportunity than their mother who survived a genocide,
and had struggled much of her life to make ends meet.

This image was taken for a not-for-profit that has changed its named, focus, and mission to KEZA.

Remera, Kigali.
Rwanda. Central Africa.
September 30, 2006.

Sisters: 2nd Generation

nobody@flickr.com (camera_rwanda) — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:37:06 -0800

camera_rwanda posted a photo:

Sister Virgini's daughter Deborah is spirit personified.

This image was taken for a not-for-profit that has changed its named, focus, and mission to KEZA.

Remera, Kigali.
Rwanda. Central Africa.
September 30, 2006.

Gisimba Memorial Center

nobody@flickr.com (camera_rwanda) — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:05:41 -0700

camera_rwanda posted a photo:

Leon, unable to hear and speak, more than compensates by a heightened 7th sense: the comic. This kid is happy happy happy!

Gisimba Memorial Center
An orphanage on the outskirts of Kigali in Nyamirambo.
Kigali, Rwanda. Africa.
August 8, 2006.

Gisimba Memorial Center

nobody@flickr.com (camera_rwanda) — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:40:38 -0700

camera_rwanda posted a photo:

The "Music for Life" 2006 camp is in full swing. Volunteers
from Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya are here at the
orphanage bringing music and joy into the children's lives...
Everyday this week the kids are playing, singing, and dancing
with their new friends.

Yesterday late afternoon while we were all dangling our feet
over the edge of wall shouldering the football field, one
boy insisted I take a photo of his lollipop. Here it is!

It takes very little to delight a child: a lollipop as bright as the sun.

Gisimba Memorial Center
An orphanage on the outskirts of Kigali in Nyamirambo.
Kigali, Rwanda. Afrika.
August 8, 2006.
"Music for Life" 2006 Camp.

Support Gismba Memorial Center. Buy the book!: www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/559906

If you are interested in sponsoring an orphan at Gisimba Memorial Center, direct contact information is listed below.
Ildephonse Niyongana - Director
Damas Gisimba - Founder
gisimbacmg@yahoo.com
Gisimba Orphanage
B.P. 1433 Kigali Rwanda

Ave de la Nyarugenge
Nyamirambo
District of Nyarugenge
tel +250 08524515 or +250 08532596

Bank of Kigali 040-0013914-76
swift BK IG RWRW

Additional information can also be found on www.orphansofrwanda.org

www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48479462459#/group.php?sid...

www.ushmm.org/conscience/analysis/bios.php?content=gisimb...

The text below is from www.orphansofrwanda.org

"Centre Memorial de Gisimba (Gisimba Memorial Center)

The Gisimba orphanage, located in the Nyamirambo quarter of Kigali, is led by Damas Mutezintare Gisimba. Damas's father founded the orphanage in 1980 with 18 children living in one house. Damas took over in 1986 after the death of his father. During the genocide Damas sheltered over 400 children and adults in the small orphanage compound from the predations of the interahamwe [the Hutu paramilitary squads that carried out much of the genocide]. Though the orphanage was repeatedly menaced, Damas and his colleagues held their ground and did not give in to the genocidaires. He has been honored for his heroism by the Rwandan government and many other organizations.

Gisimba Memorial Center

nobody@flickr.com (camera_rwanda) — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:47:25 -0700

camera_rwanda posted a photo:

David. 5. Lunch is over and David is ready play. In the background, the other kids watch a movie on the little
television, sitting on wooden benches that have been
pulled from the lunch tables. This room serves as cafeteria and living room, its furnishings all you see here: tables, benches, and behind David, cupboards keeping plastic
plates and cups ready for the next meal of ugali (porridge) and beans.

Gisimba Memorial Center
An orphanage on the outskirts of Kigali in Nyamirambo.
Rwanda. Kigali. Afrika.
july, 27, 2006.
Lunchtime.

Gisimba Memorial Center

nobody@flickr.com (camera_rwanda) — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:18:34 -0700

camera_rwanda posted a photo:

Gisimba Memorial Center
An orphanage on the outskirts of Kigali in Nyamirambo.
Kigali, Rwanda. Afrika.
July 16, 2006.

msun.bluespot.org/2006/07/01/gisimba-memorial-center?comm...

Gisimba Memorial Center

nobody@flickr.com (camera_rwanda) — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:18:06 -0700

camera_rwanda posted a photo:

Saturday Afternoon: time to dance to the radio!

Gisimba Memorial Center
An orphanage on the outskirts of Kigali in Nyamirambo.
Kigali, Rwanda. Afrika.
July 16, 2006.

msun.bluespot.org/2006/07/01/gisimba-memorial-center?comm...

Orphanage

nobody@flickr.com (camera_rwanda) — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:35:13 -0800

camera_rwanda posted a photo:

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Children playing...and smiling.

Orphanage for handicapped children.
Gitarama, Rwanda.
June, 2005.

(Second upload, without tinting.)

The Old Man

nobody@flickr.com (camera_rwanda) — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:22:23 -0700

camera_rwanda posted a photo:

Outside the shabeen.
KwaZululand, South Africa.
July, 2005.

(Scanned slide.)

Children.

nobody@flickr.com (camera_rwanda) — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:33:39 -0700

camera_rwanda posted a photo:

Happy.

I took this picture after we'd all recovered from laughing...we'd been dancing in the courtyard to pop music, one boy and I having had a kind of dance off. Could he do this move? Could I do that move? My little sister Natalie calls this doing "teen moves." We took turns, each attempting to out-goof the other.

He won.

I am grateful to Susan, a fascinating Brit cum nomad who was in Eschowe indefinately. She brought me here to this orphanage. Like me, she is a language teacher, curious about international education and children's lives. Having arrived in Eschowe two weeks prior to the day I took this picture, Susan was living day-to-day, vascillating between staying in Eschowe and returning to finish a PhD in the UK.

I love being on the road, meeting up with locals, yes, and connecting to kindred spirits. I'm most happy with a camera and no itinerary.

AIDS Orphanage.
Eschowe, KwaZululand. South Africa.
July, 2005.

Laughter

nobody@flickr.com (camera_rwanda) — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:20:43 -0700

camera_rwanda posted a photo:

Orphanage For Handicapped Children.
Gitarama, Rwanda.
June, 2005.

Gisimba Memorial Center

nobody@flickr.com (camera_rwanda) — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:13:11 -0700

camera_rwanda posted a photo:

Four sisters from oldest (to be written in later) to youngest, Rosine, Francois, Diana in the entrance of one of 6 dormitories at Gisimba Memorial Center. Yesterday was a religious holiday, so we all escaped the searing sun by languishing inside. I taught the girls Spanish, and they helped me improve my pronounciation of Kinyarwanda.

Gisimba Memorial Center
An orphanage on the outskirts of Kigali in Nyamirambo.
Kigali, Rwanda. Africa.
August 15, 2006.

Gisimba Memorial Center

nobody@flickr.com (camera_rwanda) — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:29:17 -0700

camera_rwanda posted a photo:

Sibomana. 15. Hakizimana. 16. Leon "Kilagi". 8. Fils. 9.

Gisimba Memorial Center
July 31, 2006