This is a remarkable story about a vehicle with a real history…… If this sturdy, well built, well-loved Mercedes Benz GD290 could speak, it would be a story to be told time and time again... Let me see if I can do the story justice... As some of you may recall, in 1994 a horrific genocide took place in Rwanda, a tiny country in the heart of Africa...

Cedrique Musigisha is a young boy, who lives in the tiny village of Musengo, close to Padri Vjeko School. Cedrique has been blind since three years of age when he somehow lost his sight. He was taken to a hospital where an operation was unsuccessfully performed. Now sponsored by the Franciscans of Kivumu, he attends a school in Kibeho...

With heavy rain and a thunderstorm, there also comes trouble. Although we are always happy about rain because to us it is a blessing - it is good for our gardens, our fields and for collecting the rain for our sanitary water - a storm can create problems as well. The other day a thunderbolt struck nearby our school. It “burned” the main...

Dear brothers, sisters and all people of good will! Easter is The Feast of All Feasts. The Church and all the people who celebrate Easter thank God for Jesus Christ, whose crucifixion and resurrection were a victory over sin and death. Christ’s victory isn’t only his. It is a gift to all people and the whole world. It gives people the possibility to...

Want to see the famous mountain gorillas of Rwanda, Uganda and Congo? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Recently I had the opportunity to learn about a very industrious Ugandan man, Robert, who is carving out a name for himself in the tourism sector of Uganda. You see, a while ago, a couple from Croatia came to visit us here in Kivumu...