Just a week away from boarding our flight to Amsterdam on the way to connect with the final leg of our journey to Kigali, our team continues to pull together our variety of assigned details and personal dreams. As we’ve presented our individual motivations and hopes for the trip, we [read more]
It’s altogether possible that our team will be approached to appear in a major motion picture telling the story of our adventures in Africa. And, when the promotional people begin asking who should have the first action figure produced, I’m pointing to Allison. Allison Witucki Russell is a quiet soul. [read more]
[This guest post was a surprise in my email inbox this morning. Thank you, Robyn, for writing this and for the collaboration from the rest of the team. I’m a little embarrassed to post this on my own blog. But I’m going to take one for the team! Love you [read more]
Fourteen days or, as they would say in days of old (or perhaps “olde”) — a fortnight. That’s how long until Aaron, Betty, Dan, Allison, Robyn, Malcolm, and I leave for Rwanda. Despite all of our hard work, it doesn’t seem real that the trip is that close. The Persistence [read more]
All great teams have a mascot. A mascot inspires. A mascot invigorates. Occasionally, a mascot just kind of lies there. Meet Mazzie Star, mascot of the SMU Rwanda Peace Mission 2014. When we see photographs of glamorous celebrities, we often wonder what life in the spotlight is like. Well, you [read more]
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