If you read only 1 thing on the Internet today, I highly recommend it be this story. Life-changing success story about compassion and ambition and how much 1 person can, indeed, make a difference. #HumanityLives huffingtonpost/tp-allen/rwanda-orphans_b_5357352.html Life -- indeed, survival -- was always difficult for 8-year-old Justus Uwayesu, but Sundays were particularly difficult. The garbage trucks did not run on Sundays, which meant his food would not be delivered to the Kigali City Dump where Justus lived as a double orphan. During the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Justus father was executed for being born into a family whose identity cards had the Tutsi box arbitrarily checked. His mother vanished shortly thereafter and no doubt met the same fate, for she never would have willingly abandoned her 2-year-old child, Justus. By the time Justus was 8, he had meandered more than 100 kilometers, ending up in the garbage dump for Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Amid that stench was the buffet he ate from every day. His home was a stripped out, tireless car, in which he slept on and under pieces of cardboard. The car had no windows, but provided some protection from the rain and the equatorial sun, and the pigs -- those damn pigs which competed with Justus for food! They all preferred the waste from restaurants and hotels, from which Justus separated out bottle caps, toothpicks, soiled napkins, and more disgusting things, before dining on the remaining scraps of food. Then one Sunday, the traditional day of disappointment and hunger, down the dusty road rattled a taxi transporting Clare Effiong, a visitor from the U.S. and the type of do-gooder that seasoned development workers are quick to disparage. She was on a mission, letting the Spirit lead in a way that causes many to feel very uncomfortable and even suspicious. But the Spirit had led Clare to Rwanda, and on that particular day into that taxi and onto that dirt road. And when Clare saw a particular group of children (for there were many groups of OVCs -- orphans and vulnerable children), she told the taxi driver, Stop! (to keep reading, click below)
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