Two Amazing Women
Annette (left) and Peninah (right) are both remarkable women. Annette was/is the head of her own child-headed household, and she now works at RWN. Her job is to come up with innovative programs and foresee any problems that those programs may face. Peninah is a mother of three and "Activities Coordinator" at RWN. So naturally, she counsels women, decides who gets funding for education, who is accepted into the various programs, how many people the Village can support in a given year, etc. Peninah's the one who said she sometimes calls the head office asking for more money and they have to tell her, "You can't save everyone."
In 1959, three years before independence from Belgium, the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, overthrew the ruling Tutsi king. Over the next several years, thousands of Tutsis were killed, and some 150,000 driven into exile in neighboring countries. T... ... read more 
