WHY GRDP?

Many people have been asking me why GRDP and why Rwanda - especially since Rwanda conjures up images of the 1994 genocide and the nearly one million people that were slaughtered over 100 days. I am sitting here reading this and realize that that's the same time frame from today until I leave for Rwanda on December 11. 100 days. Just over three months. One quarter in the business world. However you want to look at it, it's not a lot of time to murder (approximately) 10,000 people each day.
I can't begin to fathom the destruction, and it's apparent to me at this very moment - while my stomach hurts from reading the above - that the answer to the question is "why not GRDP?"

It's important to find your passion and support it. I've found mine. For years I've been searching for an organization in Africa that empowers people and provides them with the tools they'll require to sustain themselves, their families and their communities, and when I found GRDP I knew I had to volunteer with them because that's their mission: "...enabling them to lead their countries out of the cycle of poverty, corruption, and violence."

Originally it wasn't my intent to visit Rwanda, but after hearing the stories of friends who've recently been there, I am thrilled that it's the first country in Africa that I will experience, and I am sure the people of Rwanda will teach me far more than I can begin to teach them. I look forward to the journey and to changing my life forever.

And, I look forward to raising money to support this incredible organization, their mission and the Rwandan people.

Rwanda Fact - Rwanda is half the size of Nova Scotia and about the same size as Massachusetts.