Meeting Selina
The next day we drove from Kigali to Nyagatare, which is near to the village of Nyamikamba. The journey took about three hours, and I was surprised by how good the roads were. The countryside we passed was green and hilly, and there were banana trees on either side of the road almost all the way.
| (left to right): Me, Selina, her father, her mother and baby Joyeuse, and her brother Emmanuel. |
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We left our things at the hotel, and then drove on for another half an hour up a very bumpy dirt track to the village of Nyamikamba, where we met Selina, whose family had received a goat through Oxfam Unwrapped. Selina is lovely, and tiny (she’s much smaller than me, even though we are the same age), and she wouldn’t stop smiling. I met her family too — her mother, father and grandmother, her brother Emmanuel and her baby sister Joyeuse. Emmanuel is really sweet, and Joyeuse spends all her time cuddling up to her mother, in a sling on her mother’s back. All six of them live in a really small, mud-brick house with a tin roof and one bedroom which they all have to share.
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