Grace Heater
Rutsiro District, Western Province
This year, to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, the GAD committee asked volunteers to create a Tree of Commitment with their community. Volunteers drew a tree, and members of the community filled in the leaves with messages about how they would personally commit to women’s empowerment.
We wanted to celebrate and commit to the women in our communities – the mamas who sell fruit and vegetables at the market, the teachers and doctors and nurses we interact with every day, the young women who are still in secondary school into their mid-20s, often because of poverty, but despite it as well, and the old women who we unfailingly seem to meet only when they are passing us as they go uphill, barefoot, and with something incredibly heavy on their heads.
Rutsiro District, Western Province
This year, to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, the GAD committee asked volunteers to create a Tree of Commitment with their community. Volunteers drew a tree, and members of the community filled in the leaves with messages about how they would personally commit to women’s empowerment.
We wanted to celebrate and commit to the women in our communities – the mamas who sell fruit and vegetables at the market, the teachers and doctors and nurses we interact with every day, the young women who are still in secondary school into their mid-20s, often because of poverty, but despite it as well, and the old women who we unfailingly seem to meet only when they are passing us as they go uphill, barefoot, and with something incredibly heavy on their heads.
About 15 volunteers participated, and we are proud to
showcase some of the beautiful trees we can now add to our Commitment Forest!
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| G.S Kibangu Tara Sullivan |
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| G.S. Kinihira Caroline Golub |
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| Mushishiro H.C. Grace Mullin |
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G.S. Mushubati
Anna Hirt |
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| Mushaka H.C. Karyn Miller |
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| E.S. and G.S. Murunda Grace and Michael Heater |
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| G.S. Muzizi Rukara Hannah Gann |
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| E. S. Muhazi Shannon De Jong |
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| Cyabayaga H.C. Christina Gallagher |
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| Kibiliza H. C. Melissa Denton |
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| Muhondo H.C. Aimee Carlson |
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| E.S. Bisesero Michelle Burris |
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| Bubazi Health Center April Zachary |
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| Muremure H.C. Shreya Desai |
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| G.S. Bumba Sophie Hart |
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