Primary school children stand outside the classrooms after school in Kigali, Rwanda, waiting for their parents to pick them up.
Lily Keister, Kent State grad student, becomes emotional at the genocide memorial in Kigali, Rwanda. The location of the memorial was a place of massacre during the genocide, where 250,000 lost their lives.
Dana Oleskiewicz, Kent State cultural foundations doctoral student, dances with Rwandan cultural dancers at Twin Lakes, Rwanda.
Déo’s parents explain the story of how they met and how they married for love, which is rare for a Rwandan couple. Their advice to us was to marry for love, as they did.
Jordon Egbert, Kent State higher education masters students, stands to participate in African cultural dance at Twin Lakes, Rwanda.
Leaving the reconciliation village, perpetrators and victims perform and song and dance, radiating with the joy of their community.
Lily Keister, Kent State higher education master’s student, looks out the window in Pacifique Niyonzima’s living room. Pacifique invited us to his house for dinner on one of the last nights of the trip.
A woman named Oddette sweeps a garden at Centre St. Paul in preparation for a wedding.
Déo lifts his brother, Michael, in the air while laughing after playing a game of soccer on their porch.
Kaleb Bowen, Kent State criminology student, performs a cultural dance with a Rwandan professional dancer.
Lily Keister, Kent State higher education master’s student, balances a basket on her head while participating in cultural dance at Twin Lakes, Rwanda.
Sarah Schmidt laughs as Jordon, one of her students, throws her daughter off a rock into the pool.
Kent students Miles, Kaleb, Lily, and Jordon play chicken in the lake at Twin Lakes, Rwanda.
Margarite Murekatete, victim of genocide, stands with Nason Karenzi, perpetrator of genocide. They live together in one community in the Reconciliation village in the Eastern Province of Rwanda.
Margarite Murekatete, victim of genocide, stands with Nason Karenzi, perpetrator of genocide. They live together in one community in the Reconciliation village in the Eastern Province of Rwanda.
A man walks up the street past a large bird sitting on the step of a closed shop.
Two Rwandan mechanics take apart an engine at Centre St. Paul to fix a car. They said the car belonged to their boss.
From our lodge in Akygara, we could see homes on the mountainside through the trees. On the other side of the mountain, we could see kids playing soccer in the distance.
A child sits outside Talking Through Art, looking inside for a minute before walking down the road.
Women weave baskets outside of Talking Through Art, an art business that provides work for disabled women and mothers.
A man stands in a neighborhood near Centre St. Paul, watching as cars drive by and the garbage men collect the trash.
Salara, Sarah Schmidt’s daughter, runs down the hall of Pacifique’s house to his kitchen to get drinks for everyone in the living room and help with dinner.
Zebras hug at Akygara national park, Rwanda.
A doctor sifts through shelves at Zipline Rwanda, a company that delivers medical supplies using drone technology to the rural regions of Rwanda.
Margarite Murekatete, victim of genocide, embraces Terry, Kent State colleague, as the group leaves the Lycee Saint Marcel de Rukara Reconciliation Village.
Emily Spencer, Kent State family studies student, hugs Pacifique goodbye on her way to the airport, leaving the trip a few days early for work.
