Posted by: Patricia D. Brown on: June 13, 2010
As you know 10% of all of your Spiritworks donations go to support the work of Mama Arlene in Rwanda, Africa. Mama Arlene is coming to the states and will be with me for one week. I hope you will bring your family or neighbors and come and meet my 80-year-old mother. Sunday June 27 [...]
Posted by: Patricia D. Brown on: March 24, 2010
On Day 8 Mama Arlene and I, along with the driver, Oswald, went touring to local sights that Mama wanted me to experience. We went to three museums, two were contained in the Institut des Musees Nationaux du Rwanda. There I was able to see the round domed grass-roofed home of the last king as [...]
Posted by: Patricia D. Brown on: March 20, 2010
Today was Saturday and the children were home all day from school. Every Saturday morning the children are treated to Chapati Bread. It is a deep fried flat bread. I enjoyed it too. At 8:00 Jessica, another volunteer, and I went to a storage room to sort supplies and carry them to the new Hope [...]
Posted by: Patricia D. Brown on: March 17, 2010
Hello all. I arrived on Tuesday morning greeted by Mama Arlene and one of her assistants and her driver. It was about a sixty minute drive from the Kigali airport to Urukundo Village. Mama Arlene took me on a walking tour of the home site and I met some of the small ones who were [...]