by Deborah Steely | Jan 16, 2023
Kigali Airport Flight to Delhi in 2 hours. There we will train teachers to teach kids in “poverty” schools spoken English, an extension of what we do here in Rwanda. Never having gone to India I am excited and ready for shock and delight. But before we...
by Deborah Steely | Jan 11, 2023
This is the week for observing instruction. We drove about an hour out of Kigali; not a great distance, but slow. We left the ‘main road’, asphalted, decent. Turned onto a dirt road. Dirt roads in Africa double as river beds. Long, deep channels run down...
by Deborah Steely | Feb 12, 2019
Third month away from home. Two months in Rwanda, 4th or 5th trip here. At times feels like a second home. We now know the rules of the road, how to barter, who to call when the need arises, where to buy the best bread, the cheapest and freshest vegetables, how long...
by Deborah Steely | Jan 21, 2019
Managing this project feels like standing under a hailstorm of confetti that you use to create a puzzle, an elaborate, multidimensional puzzle, each piece a critical part of the bigger picture. Each, a tiny detail that must be picked up, examined, discussed, assigned,...
by Deborah Steely | Dec 13, 2018
It’s 4am-ish and we’ve been up sharpening our pencils, reviewing the minutia of the upcoming day. When you run a project alone, you do everything; attendance, schlepping computers, chargers, cable (my god, the cables), sharpening pencils, charging...
