d universities and colleges, urging members of the youthful generations to step up to the plate and participate in positive change in Rwanda. He has encouraged audiences in different parts of the U.S. to actively engage in Rwanda’s future. He was a keynote speaker at the One Life Rwanda Gala event, held in Washington D.C. to benefit the Street Children Program, made possible through the Mustard Seed Project.
Building a good number of relationships and contacts with people in the U.S. so far has been one of the great successes of the trip. Pastor Gashagaza says that God has been faithful in speaking through him as he travels.
On October 26, Gashagaza visited Wake Forest University, where he connected with Mary Martin Niepold, a journalism instructor at WFU. Niepold, who visited Rwanda last summer, is the founder of the Nyanza Project, a non-profit initiative that seeks to intervene in the lives of grandmothers caring for grandchildren orphaned by AIDS in 
Africa. Gashagaza is now working with Niepold to plan the construction of a preschool in one of PFR’s Reconciliation Villages. The preschool will serve not only to educate the children in the villages, but also to provide employment opportunities in the village. The preschool is foreseen as a necessary and fruitful part of the community, offering much to villagers and to the transformation of Rwanda in these decades immediately following the genocide.
To see the full press release about Gashagaza’s visit to WFU and about this partnership with Niepold Nyanza Project, go here: http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2010/oct/27/waging-peace-advocate-of-radical-forgiveness-in-rw-ar-485869/.
Last Photo Credit: Gashagaza speaks at WFU. Jennifer Rotenizer, Winston-Salem Journal
