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A Cow Doesn’t Give Me Information: How Radio Played a Role for Children in Post-Genocide Rwanda

A Cow Doesn’t Give Me Information: How Radio Played a Role for Children in Post-Genocide Rwanda

by Kristine Pearson | Oct 4, 2016 | By Kristine Pearson, Children, Power of radio, Rwanda

When asked if he had to choose between his wind-up radio or his cow, he didn’t hesitate. Fordward, an 18-year-old Rwandan head of household said, “I shall choose my radio, because a cow doesn’t give me information.”

African Innovator of the Month

African Innovator of the Month

by admin | Jan 20, 2013 | African progress, Energy poverty, Rwanda

A Shining Role Model for ICT Women in Africa At just 25 Clarisse Iribagize has created one of the leading mobile technology companies in Rwanda. In 2012 she won an Apprentice-style reality show for...
Reflections – 11 Years of Progress in Rwanda

Reflections – 11 Years of Progress in Rwanda

by Kristine Pearson | Oct 13, 2009 | African progress, By Kristine Pearson, Children, Rwanda

Today is why I do my life’s work. A colleague, and I spent the day in Bugasera, Rwanda in an area where prior to the genocide, the population was 64,000, afterwards 2,000. We spoke with 30 (50/50 female/male) child heads of households

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