Our home in Rwanda

Sue and I live in ‘the dorm’ building at Rwanda Youth for Christ.

We inhabit a very large room at the end of the corridor, with two double beds (with mosquito nets),

three lounge chairs and two 2’ x 4’ tables – one of these is most of our kitchen, the other is between our beds and we keep books and ‘stuff’ on it. That’s it for us. Here we sleep, eat, entertain visitors, compute, read and relax.

Other regular inhabitants of the dorm are Mareike from Germany, Kathrin from France and Kathleen from South Africa. These young women are volunteering with YFC here – two as a GAP year and the other is an accountant who wanted to volunteer. They are great company and really easy to get along with.

The remainder of our kitchen, which we share with the girls, is one of the dorm bedrooms where there are 4 plastic chairs and two tables - one of them houses a two-burner gas cooker. It does all that we need, especially as we eat fresh fruit for breakfast and salad for tea most nights. Here we boil water for 10 minutes for drinking and cook meals for visitors who come for lunch at weekends.