Monday, May 21st 2012
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The school is taking shape...
The school is taking shape...
For our workers it was a major success due to the fact that on many of the past days they had been unable to work at all due to heavy rain and also because everything is done by hand, without[…]
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Created on: 19.5.2012.
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We’re Going Back to Rwanda, That’s for Sure!
We’re Going Back to Rwanda, That’s for Sure!
We wanted to come to Rwanda to see the gorillas, but it was hard to find any information about travelling to this African country. We saw a television show about Franciscans in Rwanda and found an article about fra Ivica[…]
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Created on: 10.5.2012.
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The Construction of the Secondary School in Kivumu has begun!
The Construction of the Secondary School in Kivumu has begun!
The arrival of stone-laden trucks and the excavation of the foundation by more than 50 workers marked the beginning of the construction of the secondary school in Kivumu, Rwanda. With it – just four months after the publishing of the[…]
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Created on: 4.5.2012.
News | 4.5.2012. -
We Have Built a Biogas Plant in Kivumu
We Have Built a Biogas Plant in Kivumu
To get biogas we use the manure from our cows, but also the “waste” from the twelve toilets we have built in the school compound. All that is linked to a big 35-cubic-metre cistern buried in the ground, so all[…]
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Created on: 27.4.2012.
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INTERVIEW: Maja Sajler Garmaz
INTERVIEW: Maja Sajler Garmaz
Two journalists, Maja Sajler Garmaz and Željko Garmaz, who are married to each other, wrote a book entitled “Our Man in Africa” (“Naš čo’ek u Africi”) after their trip to Africa. Maja and Željko went to Africa for their honeymoon.[…]
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Created on: 11.4.2012.
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The Kivumu Secondary School – A Triumph of Good People’s Hearts!
The Kivumu Secondary School – A Triumph of Good People’s Hearts!
More than a year ago, when my dear friends, Željko Garmaz and Maja Sajler Garmaz, contacted me announcing that they were coming to Rwanda to write a book about me and the missionary work of Croatian priests in East Africa,[…]
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Created on: 4.4.2012.
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Lions and Giraffes in Akagera
Lions and Giraffes in Akagera
Foreigners pay one price, and the locals pay another. You also have to sign two registration forms and indicate that you would be exiting via the same entrance, all for security reasons. The day was very sultry. Fra Ivica had[…]
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Created on: 2.4.2012.
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My Second Week in Africa
My Second Week in Africa
On Thursday we went to Kigali to pick up Višnja Kljajić, an architect who was visiting Rwanda for the first time (I was already feeling ‘local’ ?). Driving his ‘Dragon’ (that’s how he calls his almost 20 years old car,[…]
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Created on: 17.3.2012.
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My First Week in Africa
My First Week in Africa
On the road to Kivumu we had a flat tire. We exited the car to assess the damage. Picture this: I’m thrilled to be in Africa, so I search my bag looking for my camera in order to take a[…]
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Created on: 23.2.2012.
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Nothing is Thrown Away!
Nothing is Thrown Away!
I’ve already written about how we recently manufactured fifty-four new desks and ninety-five chairs for the six newly built classrooms (for the primary school). We plan to make an additional one hundred desks and two hundred chairs. But before we[…]
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Created on: 13.2.2012.
News | 13.2.2012.
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Dear Brothers,
The best students in the school year were given awards, followed by a show prepared by the students themselves. For parents and other guests who gathered in large numbers, they performed traditional Rwandese dances, accompanied as always, by the sound of drums, as well as the presentation of different plays in which they joked about their...