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EQ: How is the country of Rwanda socially redefining itself after the 1994 genocide?

FOCUS: - Aline: relationships/ tensions between villagers - Nicole: effect on adolescents/ orphanages - Nara: refugee camps/ aid

Remember to answer these questions in your writing:


 * what is the issue?
 * what are the underlying causes?
 * what can be done?
 * why should we care?

Timeline: ** · April 16: 5 minutes of video completed · April 20: complete revision of first draft & last-minute additions · April 27: final draft due · May 12: video and synopsis completed · May 14: presentation **

**Aline:** January 26 : "BBC NEWS | Africa | Rwanda: How the genocide happened." // BBC NEWS | News Front Page // . 18 Dec. 2008. Web. 26 Jan. 2010. . This news article includes the history of violence, what led up to the genocide, the actual genocide, and the aftermath of the genocide.

"BBC NEWS | Programmes | Panorama | 'Living among the dead'" // BBC NEWS | News Front Page // . Web. 26 Jan. 2010. . This news article is about a woman named Flora Mukampore who was left for dead inside a church. She became unconscious after the killers left and woke up a month after everyone in the church was massacred. She was sleeping with the dead for an entire month and was covered in blood and maggots. She lost 17 members of her family during the Rwandan genocide. 

January 28: "BBC News - Country profile: Rwanda." //BBC NEWS | News Front Page // . Web. 28 Jan. 2010. . 

February 7: DAN KEENAN, Northern News Editor. "Hero of 'Hotel Rwanda' to visit Dublin." <span style="font-family: tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Irish Times // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> 01 Sept. 2009: <span style="font-family: tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Newspaper Source // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">. EBSCO. Web. 7 Feb. 2010. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&hid=5&sid=f3a086b6-6500-4948-8273-0017aabc0cb5%40sessionmgr113&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=nfh&AN=9FY4055764518> This is an article that includes some quotes from the man who inspired the movie "Hotel Rwanda." He is comparing the conflict between the Protestants and the Catholics in Ireland to the conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda.

Zakaria, Fareed. "Africa's New Path." <span style="font-family: tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">Newsweek // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> 154.4 (2009): 26. <span style="font-family: tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">Middle Search Plus // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">. EBSCO. Web. 7 Feb. 2010. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=6&hid=5&sid=f3a086b6-6500-4948-8273-0017aabc0cb5%40sessionmgr113&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=mih&AN=43295847> This article is complimenting Rwanda's recovery from its 1994 genocide. It states that the country is making an enormous recovery, and President Paul Kagame is behind most of the improvements.

February 19, 2010: Heller, Stephen. "Design That Heals: An Interview with Alan Jacobson." //AIGA | the professional association for design//. 20 Feb. 2008. Web. 19 Feb. 2010. <http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/design-that-heals-an-interview-with-alan-jacobson>.

Alan Jacobson goes to Rwanda to heal villagers using art and creativity.

This is an article containing a combination of different books written to explore the views of different people and see the different reactions. These views share one basic idea, the genocide was the worst thing that could ever happen. Also they all seem to agree the genocide was really neighbors killing neighbors.
 * Nicole**​: Stansell, Christine. "The Aftermath and After." The New Republic. 9 Feb. 2010. []

February 6:

Nicole: “Rwanda-Economy.” ISS. February 2005. 31 January 2010. [].

This article describes in detail the different ways that the Rwandan economy has improved since the genocide and how they have had the biggest improvement in their economy compared to other countries. Even though the country is living in rural conditions many of their people have jobs to sustain their families after the genocide. Also through these many jobs it has helped increase trading between their country and others. Help from major countries like the US, UK, and the United Nations has helped Rwanda come back from the genocide.

NARA NELLIS

[|THE ARTICLE]
Here is a timeline of all genocides in our known history [|Source 2 : Timeline]

This picture is an example of the physical scars the survivors of the genocide bear. Now we need to discover the mental scars.


 * __February 18__**

Nicole- Fineman, Mia. "Jonathan Torgovnik's photographs of children born of rape during the Rwandan genocide." //Slate Magazine//. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Feb. 2010. <http://www.slate.com/id/2219840/>.

This website contains an article about Jonathan Torgovnik's photography trip to Rwanda to document the affect of aids that turned into a trip to find out about the rapes during the genocide. At first he interviewed a woman to find out about her aids, but then she told him she probably contracted it from one of the Hutu militiamen that raped her. This made him wonder about how many other women are being affected by this same situation and how they are dealing with the situation. So for three years he traveled back and forth to Rwanda to interview more and more women to learn their stories. The ending of their stories for the future were all the same, they all wanted to see their children off to school. To help these mothers get their children to school he co-founded a nonprofit organization called **Foundation Rwanda.**

P'Rayan, Albert. "Orphans of the Genocide: Rwanda's Street Children." //Worldpress.org - World News From World Newspapers//. N.p., 1 Feb. 2002. Web. 18 Feb. 2010. <http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/355.cfm#down>.

This is the story of Albert P'Rayan's trip to Rwanda's capital, Kigali, to explore how bad the orphans must live on the streets of Kigali just to survive. Also what they went through to end up in this state. He had interviews with many different people and even had some experiences of his own while traveling the streets of Kigali.

McKenney, Anna Sophia. "Youth In Rwanda That Head Households Commonly Depressed." //Medical News Today: Health News//. N.p., 6 Sept. 2008. Web. 18 Feb. 2010. <http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/120409.php>.

This article explains what the youths of Rwanda are going through mentally since the genocide concluded. Mainly the children who have become the heads of their households.

Feb 18 OUTLINE FROM NARA

refugees in rwanda 1) -countries that they took refuge in --the great lakes region ---Lake Victoria ---Lake Tanganyika ---Lake Malawi ---Lake Turkana ---Lake Albert ---Lake Kivu camps located by active volcano, little or no shelter ---Lake Edward

2) -effects of the exodus on refugees --depression --sense of hopelessness --want for death --danger still present from hutu militants --disease and death from lack of supplies prevelant --unwanted pregnancies from rape --violence --insomnia

3) -status of refugee camps --little or no shelter --lack of food and clean water --undesirable location for camps --in danger from the natural elements --danger of attacks --disease and illness causing deaths ---ecoli ---dirrhea ---infection

March 1

Nicole-

Rwandan Orphan Project-"Rwandan Orphan Project - Who Are Are." //Rwandan Orphan Project - Who Are Are//. UG Works, n.d. Web. 1 Mar. 2010. <http://www.rwandanorphansproject.org/index.php>.

"Help orphans in Africa - GlobalGiving." //GlobalGiving: donate to grassroots projects; education, health, microfinance//. Web. 01 Mar. 2010. [].

Shaddox, Colleen. "Nonprofit Gives Hope to Children Orphaned by Genocide in Rwanda |." //Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. | Miller-McCune Online Magazine//. 27 Feb. 2009. Web. 01 Mar. 2010. <http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/simply-rwandan-3921/>.