Saturday October 17, 6pm at the Portland Zoo, Africa New Life Ministries hosted their annual banquet entitled, "Kageyo: Relief for the Weary."
Enric Sifa will be singing. If you would like to attend, contact Allan Hotchkiss at 503.906.1590 or 866.979.0393.
Our good friend, Michelle has written a compelling blog post about this people group.
There is a lot of beauty in Rwanda and there is a lot of pain. It is visible on people's faces, both the pain and the beauty, the hope and the despair. Most of the time, you can see both.
But nowhere was the pain more visible to me than in Kageyo. Kageyo is located about 2 1/2 hours from Kigali, on the edge of the Akegera Game park. It is in the middle of nowhere. The only way to get there is on a rough dirt road.
About 4200 people live in Kageyo. It is made up of families who, in the 1960's fled Rwanda for Tanzania during political unrest that eventually led up to the genocide in 1994. These families settled there in Tanzania, buying land and building homes. Then, a couple years ago, the Tanzanian government forced these families to move back to Rwanda. There was no place for them to go, so Rwanda put them here in Kageyo. They were built small stucco-walled homes with tin roofs and a rainwater reclaimation system, a small school and clinic.
And now, two year later, that's all they have. No wells, no industry, no means of income, no food assistance.
