This year marks a grim anniversary for the African nation of Rwanda. Twenty years ago, extremists from the country?s Hutu ethnic group massacred somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million people in less than four months. Already one of the poorest countries in the world, this period crippled Rwanda?s fragile healthcare system. Scarce basic resources and […]
Two thousand students attend the Kabwende Primary Center in Kinigi, Rwanda, where they study reading and math in English, rather than in French or Kinyarwanda, the country?s other official languages. Yet when Indiana University students first visited the school in 2009, one year after its switch to an English-based education, not one Rwandan child had […]