Raising for Another Hope

YoY and thanks for visiting my Blog

Anyone keeping up with this site will have noticed that I didn’t write as much since staying in Kigali and there were no new photos for a while.
The reason is that this city actually doesn’t offer too much so write about or take pictures of. Everything is quite sterile. I meet a lot of very interesting people though (Engineers, a psychiatrist helping traumatized people, all different kinds of NGO workers and of course: Rwandans and their life-story)

After spending some time in the hospital here in Kigali I learned that it isn’t really what I came to Africa for. It’s a pretty big and decent institution, offering high class medicine. In my department of Gynecology I probably see the same things as I would in any European clinic; excluding the case of a prolaps that has been untreated since 1956…
So with being not really happy with my current situation I took a look around.
Staying in contact with a American group from “Engineers Without Borders” I heared  about their project in western Rwanda.
They are helping  an orphanage near lake Kivu with technical improvements and this is a nice opportunity to get known to their inventions.
It will help me to learn about technical solutions for a lot of the problems we will face when building the orphanage in Nansana. (The also offered all their help once the project reaches the stage of construction.)
There is also a hospital near by and according to them it is offering a lot of what I would be interested to learn.
So now I wrote a bunch of mails and wait for their answers, keeping up optimism I think it will all work out…

I am very much looking forwards to get out of the city, in any case I will do so!
If its this clinic or another, there are loads of intersting projects out there

About current politics in Rwanda: this Blog is about my journey and to help the orphanage in Uganda, politics isn’t really the point.

So now I am waiting for the responses to my mails and look forwards to see new places ☺

With the best wishes to where ever you are

Peace,

Basi

P.s.: There was a quite interesting discussion with a doctor at the clinic:
He told me that it is his aim to introduce in vitro fertilization here in Rwanda – home to approximately 10.1 million people it supports the densest population in continental Africa. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda)

His arguments:

1) we should use the advances of modern medicine everywhere in the world, not only in countries where people can effort it

2) it is highly important for gaining a social status in Rwanda to have children; families without are excluded from society and suffer badly from it – besides from the grief of not being able to have a child

3) people all over Africa don’t use contraceptives fearing that this would unable the to have children for ever. With showing that medicine can help against being infertile it could encurage people to use contraceptives, letting them know that there is a “cure” for their anticipated side effect

I would love to hear your statements to this topic, please leave your comments in case you have a opinion.