Keeping Me Up At Night

For class, I am reading the book Left To Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza and I watched the move Hotel Rwanda for the first time. It is very difficult to sleep at night knowing that this type of stuff happened and I had no idea. Also, that it is most likely happening right now in other countries and none of us know. How can a country wipe out almost an entire population and we know nothing about it. It is sad! After talking with several people, there are maybe a handful that actually knew about the genocide prior to the movie coming out. Why was this kept a secret? Why did the United States not get involved, they choose to involve themselves in the lives of every other country.

I recently had the pleasure of meeting a man name Providence, who survived the Rwandan genocide and is now in America, because he spoke out against the Government. He spoke with such passion about what happened in Rwanda and has been spending his time in America, working on how to help people who are still in Africa suffering. He runs an organization called Stuff for the Poor. They collect used shoes, bikes, and toys and raise money for the poor and orphaned in Africa. Please check out this organization.

We all need to become more aware so that a travisty like this does not happen again.