The Rwandan Children's Choir

A young and vibrant group telling the story of Rwanda in traditional Music and Dance.

Rwanda has overcome incredible challenges to be where it is today. Now 24 children are traveling the world telling this story.The Rwandan Children’s choir is made up 24 very talented children ages 9-12 . Most of the children in the choir are orphans. Some come from homes devastated by HIV/AIDS. The choir presentations are a great source of healing and encouragement for the children. The children perform in churches, schools, and other public places raising awareness about the issues that Rwanda has faced and how it is working towards bringing unity, healing, and prosperity after the 1994 genocide that claimed more than one million people.

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At YOUTUBE you can also visit a small film of the choir

Kresta King Cutcher

Kresta King Cutcher, American born photographer currently studying for a masters of photography at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, UK. Kresta's passion is people, and her photography supports humanitarian organizations such as Sisters of Rwanda, CARE, UNICEF, The United States Holocaust Museum, The United Nations, and The International Children's Aid Network. Kresta's work is included in the touring youth curated exhibition, "We Said Never Again: The Silent Voices of Rwanda" (Markham Museum, Ontario, and McGill University, Montreal).At present, Kresta is working on a personal project that explores Faith.

You can see her work Flickr under the name Camera_Rwanda

She is the one who inspired me to start painting oilportrets.

Sister Rose from Rwanda

Sister Rose. I made this painting from a photo made by Kresta King Cutcher. See also the website of Sisters of Rwanda. So many work is still to been done overthere.






















Foto made by Kresta King Cutcher and with her permission I used the photo to make this painting.

Jeanine

On Flickr I found a picture of a girl from Rwanda named Jeanine. The photo was taken by Kresta King Cutcher. She knows abouth this painting I made and gave me permission to use her photo for inspiration. This painting brought me the award "Kunstenaar van Maas en Waal 2006" and I.m very proud to be a winner with my first oilpainting.
There are thousands of street children in Butare. Jeanine is one of them. Some are amputees on crutches. Some are blind. Some have AIDS. Everyday they scavenge for food. They make their home in trash heaps boardering the streets. At night, these children burrow beneath blankets of rotted refuse, heads at odd angles to the highway.Some of these children are orphans, others come from broken or abusive homes, a sobering fact which can turn street life into near sanctuary.
Look on Flickr to see more of the photo.s of Kresta King Cutcher.

For more information how to help: The site of Orphans of Rwanda a nonprofit organization who helps orphans and vulnerable children in Rwanda complete secondary school and university, in order to provide for themselves and ultimately become leaders in their communities profit organization

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