First Rwanda Road Trip
Home base has been the capital city, Kigali, but at the end of the week we headed east a few hours to the district of Gatsibo. We went to three distribution sites over two days with an overnight in a hotel in Kabarore. This was challenging for the Rotary and SCAW teams but successful although we ended in the dark the first day using car headlights to help take the final pictures. On the road trip we saw interesting types of road conveyances and then we saw the extensive cooperative, as well as agriculture in the lush valleys (Rwanda is the country of 1,000 hills) with rice, kidney beans, bananas, potatoes, tea and more.
Our team is great, and we are having fun with the children, parents and the Rotary members as you can see in the team photo with bubbles.
And we ended the evening in Kabarore sampling the local Banana wine – which was a uniquely new taste – and look!
We are travelling back to yesterday’s site to finish since lightning and torrential rain shut it down - it will be a big day with two sites one hour apart and then a 4-5 hour drive to the western sites.
The view from my hotel room is above and there is a bus station that emits VERY loud revs starting at 5:30 am.
Team Rwanda, 2024
Rotary Club of Kigali Virunga 🇷🇼 and SCAW 🇨🇦