In Focus: American Teens, Rwandan Truths

Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/africa/rwanda-teens-reaching-across-divide

A group of Vermont high school students recently travelled to Rwanda to meet teenagers orphaned by AIDS. They share their photos, video, and their own words about their experiences in country.

The program, based in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, was launched this summer by Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (CHABHA) a Vermont-based nonprofit using money raised by the American teenagers. It provides job skills training for orphaned teenagers who haven't been able to attend high school. It also educates them about AIDS prevention.

This report is part of Pulitzer Center-sponsored project "Rwanda: Teens Reaching across A Divide" (http://bit.ly/sDQ7Qu).

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Pulitzer Center
• Rwanda
• Vermont Teenagers
• Community Service
• Thetford Academy
• Fareed Zakaria
• AIDS
• HIV
• CHABHA
• Children Affected by HIV/AIDS
• Help African Orphans
• Children in Africa
• AIDS in Africa
• Operation Day's Work-USA
• Youth

[zarasa2009]

How can the work director think that they have nothing in common with the Rwanda people? She is not a human been ? What she is doing there??!!!!! USA, is a country that finance the war of oil, and coltan. Is her country who is making the war in Congo, Rwanda, that cost more than 4 million of ded throu the trannatonals.

[jquilkin07]

i would love to go on this progra. i would like to understand what life is really like over there and to understand aids and poverty in africa. and all you people wondering why they are giving them soccar balls, is becasue they have nothing to do, and soccar gives them something other then sadness, it gives them fun and happiness. i would love to go! i bet is costs $9467 tho..

[Uragan]

lol well you can think of aids as the civilized worlds best friend. it keeps these kids from growing into criminals.

[ungobob]

what garbage the youtube editors are feeding us

[SIP100]

and by defensive nature i mean any peoples cultural want to protect their own cultural tradition we all do it.

[SIP100]

Unfortunately or fortunately of which picking between i do not know really which it is exactly.. but I simplistically agree. Unfortunately for your premise of which I've read much their cultural while personal solace and defensive nature is attached will inevitably be demolished by either Asian or western culture as such their life expectancy and concentration of "stuff" will explode, but cultural lines lol its like holding up a wall with a stick and a wrecking ball coming at it at 1,000 mph.

[kissvideoman]

They need science and techonology to develop their country!

[Stupoyo]

Well if there starving, why are they giving them cameras, and soccer balls? And besides we are at war HELLO!!! Bush has no money for starving children he's trying to thin out the population not fatten it up.And what about birth control! why create life in such an unforgiving world??

[DickFlick]

How incredibly patronizing. "Theyre normal people" and "My Africa." Hey, could you please send my friend with HIV a soccer ball? Most teenagers in the USA could never afford to go to africa, and Ill be willing to bet these rich Vermont kids never go to poor black hoods in the US.

[Axmedkoole]

LIES, LIES LIES, AND ONCE AGAIN another Western lies in the media. The fact of the matter is, what you consider a poor is not a poor in Africa. To you it may be a poor, but to them they've been living that way for centuries, that is how they want to live and that is how they living. A farmer in Africa is living under no stress, and pays no bills. STOP THE PROPAGANDAS and trying to advertise your race, and society to us. SCREW YOU ALL.