Perseverance
This lady works in and around the clinic, cleaning, cooking and just helping out. She is an extremely diligent worker and probably does more work than anyone there. She has gone through some hard times too. If you look at her neck, you will notice a huge lump there. She had a goiter (due to lack of iodine in the diet), but the doctor she went to didn't know what it was and tried to cut it off (sans anesthetic). So the huge goiter lump turned into a huge scar tissue lump. But look at the smile. That is perseverance. That is joy.
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 
