The community of Murambi welcomed a group of Plan donors today. Children sang and danced in celebration of the new school (Groupe Scolaire Murambi) the donors collectively funded. Murambi's Mayor told the group, "Your gift of education to these children will be repaid. In Rwanda we have a tradition that when you give a gift of a cow, you receive a gift of its first offspring back in return. If education were cattle, these children would one day fly many planes filled with cows to you in Canada. Because cows don't fly, instead these students will repay your kindness with hard work and progress. You are looking at the future of Rwanda, and they will make good things happen around the world bc of this opportunity. Thank you."
One of the donors said that the few hours we spent visiting the school they helped make possible, and meeting the children who will benefit, made the 2-day journey over here entirely worth it.
A fantastic day, which I'll write about soon. We're off to the west of Rwanda today, driving to the Virunga Mountains.
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