Witnessing how the poor live

In 2005, the United Nations effectively adopted Mayange, Rwanda selecting it as one of 80 model villages across Africa, where tourism strategies intended to cut poverty in half by 2015 are being tested. It's Mayange's status as a "Millennium Village" that draws crowds down from Kigali. But the full-day tour of a local farm, school, and health clinic, among other sites, exemplifies a fast-growing trend in global travel.

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• United
• Nations
• Rwanda
• kigali
• tourism
• mayange

[gildarttx]

Great video...beautiful people! I thought, however, from the title that it would be poor people in the U.S. For example, I have heard about the colonias on the Texas border with Mexico that have open sewers, poor in Appalachia, poor in Mississippi... There are starving folks in the US? We expect Africa to be poor....just go to a nighttime view of the earth and look at the African continent. Very few developed areas. Thanks for the video,  Jim G., Spring Branch, Texas