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ters, some singing despite their anguish, then dying because of it. Yet others in our team began a dramatic meningitis, measles, polio, and vitamin A immunization program at Mugunga, aimed at helping 50,000 over a one-week period.
That group was assisted by a large German presence. By the time of my own departure, many of those of us who had arrived as pioneers were being joined or replaced by others. Their dedication and the generosity of their nations’ people mark the charitable side of a human nature whose goodness I had every reason to question this past fortnight.
I thank God Almighty for the courage and opportunity He gave me to make this voyage. The people of Rwanda will, I pray, have that same courage and opportunity to reunite, but that prospect appears remote* and great despair remains in the offing. For the moment, while I prefer to think of our modest works of healing, my most searing memories are of the overwhelming, hordes, of the pathos, of the wetness, or their cold at night, of the gunfire, the smells, the smoke, and the cries. Of an infant trying to nurse from her dead mother, of those dying in our arms. And of a man who climbed in among the dead, assuring us he, too, soon would die and, without fmaily to lay him to rest, that he was doing so while he himself still had the energy to move. i .
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