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Team Rwanda – Burundi Day

The crickets are chirping in Kinyarwanda; the moon hangs kaddy wompus; the radio is blaring in some unrecognizable language; a foreign bug is creeping across my computer screen; the night is very quiet such that any noise carries. I suppose if I breathe heavy, the neighbors might hear–nah. They’d have to hear me over the radio next door. Everyone’s up around 5 a.m., so 8:30 feels like 10:30 p.m., so most the team has headed to bed . . . More

June 2010

Excitement is building as plans fall into place for a July trip to Rwanda. In the midst of a ravaged country, hope shines in the form of a vegetable garden, a simple treadle sewing machine, or a place to call home.

A team of five women, led by Leigh Buchan, had their first opportunity to show their flexibility and willingness to ‘go with the flow,’ as plans to visit Burundi were abruptly canceled due to political unrest in that part of the country . . . More

Local nonprofit combines adventure and activism

Real estate agents Leigh Buchan and Diane Ellis were having a beer one night and discussing the speaker they’d heard that day. He had asked them to consider the 100 things they wanted to do before they die. Ellis mentioned she wanted to go to Tibet or Africa; Buchan, who has a background in church mission work, concurred, and by the end of the evening the two ambitious women had a trip to a Tibetan village all planned.

Wanting to do more than just visit, they contacted a man Buchan knows who does development work in a remote area there and asked if there was a project that needed to be done . . . More