How Pens Can Write Some Wrongs That Blight Rwanda ; Agenda the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Solihull, Maggie Throup, Was Among the Participants of Project Umubano, the Tories' Social Action Project in Rwanda This Month . She Describes Why Rwanda Gets Under Her Skin

Birmingham Post › August 14, 2008

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Why did I return to Rwanda to carry out voluntary work for a second year? This is the question many people have been asking me - Rwandans and fellow volunteers alike.

Well the answer is simple - last year I took far more away from my experience than I gave. It was never meant to be like that. I was giving my time and experience so why should I benefit too?

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How Pens Can Write Some Wrongs That Blight Rwanda ; Agenda the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Solihull, Maggie Throup, Was Among the Participants of Project Umubano, the Tories' Social Action Project in Rwanda This Month . She Describes Why Rwanda Gets Under Her Skin

It is not a simple task to explain how I benefited from the experience - words cannot describe how Rwanda and the Rwandans get under your skin and in your blood and I know my second visit to this country will definitely not be my last.

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