This will the the last blog from Rwanda.
Yesterday Denise and I sat in on a therapy group of traumatized women, suffering from the aftermath of rape and the murder of their families. They were also all HIV positive. It was part of AVEGA east's counseling program.
The experience was very powerful and very difficult. All that we had read about became real, all too real. They told us that when the genocide ended they felt "lower than dogs," until AVEGA found them or they found AVEGA. AVEGA has become "a father to the orphans" and "a husband to the widows." It is a totally remarkable organization and we will try to partner with it and be helpful however we can.
In a few hours we will be on the plane, and in a few days we will be back in the states.
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Carl, I haven't commented much on these entries, but I have been reading them - and have been moved, impressed, and challenged by them. Thanks so much for sharing your experience. What a testament the trip - and what you have begun - is to your creative, generous sensibility - thinking outside not only "the box" but even our constructs of how a box might be built. Congratulations. Give yourself plenty of time and space to negotiate your return healthily. Much love to you, Lisken.
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