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PRNewswire - January 21, 2005
When Ms. Faulkner first began to petition the Mayor of Kigali, Rwanda, to donate land for her proposed Women's Resource and AIDS Center in 2001, The Jireh Project was just a long awaited dream. A short time later, with the gift of 50 fertile acres in a prime area of Kigali, her dream for the surviving victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide started to take shape. Working in tandem with government officials and local professionals, she and her team of volunteers were able to come close to the completion of the project in three short years.
Given the many hurdles Ms. Faulkner had to cross, none were more discouraging than the day she discovered that all of the footage she had hired a local videographer to film was unusable. "We had just spent days with a videographer capturing the language, people and culture of Rwanda in an effort to show concerned Americans how greatly the civil war had devastated this stoic people. Without that footage, I felt helpless. How could I ever tell their story in an effective and powerful way?" said Faulkner.
Unbeknownst to Ms. Faulkner, someone else was already working out that piece of the puzzle. The manager of the upscale hotel Mille Colline was writing his memoirs from 1994, when he watched in horror as a million of his fellow countrymen were brutally murdered in a hostile and bloody war in less than three months. "I look back at the days of unused footage and realize we could not have even begun to tell this story in such a powerful way," said Faulkner.
The Jireh Project is just months away from finishing the first phase of the three phase project and is planning to open the Center to a packed house in April 2005.
Donations are greatly needed and tax deductible. For photos and story, and to make online donations, visit http://www.thejirehproject.com .
SOURCE The Jireh Project
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