Tourism options offered to Urukundo volunteers include the opportunity to visit a village in Muhanga near Urukundo village, meet our neighbors, and experience village life.
Juliette and her family invited our volunteers to visit their village to experience village life.
Volunteers Cassi, Ruby, Barb and driver Eric were welcomed in Juliette’s home by Julliette, her three children, and two neighborhood kids.
Arriving from the USA in September and leaving in October, Cassi, Ruby and Barb are featured as volunteers in both newsletters. Ruby is from Maine, her sister Cassi is from Pennsylvania and their cousin Barb is from New Jersey.
Some of what is ordinary village life became real for them.
Neighbors prepared to carry water. Jerrycans full of water weigh about 40 pounds and are carried on the head.
Here are cassava plants in a small field. Farming is a way of life in small villages.
Bananas are grown locally for local use.
These bricks were vulnerable to wind and rain and often collapsed.
In earlier times in Rwanda, mud bricks were the only available material for building homes. Construction has improved. New homes now use better baked brick. Doors and windows have also improved.