Life at Agahozo Shalom
By Rob Eshman, Editor-in-Chief
October 19, 2007
JewishJournal.com
If I wanted the kind of office where visitors shut the door and cry, I’d have become a rabbi. Or a therapist. Or an agent.
That’s why it caught me off guard when a woman named Anne Heyman sat down across from me and started, well, crying.
Heyman was in town last week to raise money and awareness for the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Moved to ease the plight of 1.2 million children left orphaned by the 1994 Rwandan genocide, she came up with the idea of emulating the Yemin Orde Youth Village in Israel, the model by which Israel absorbed, raised and educated hundreds of post-Holocaust Jewish orphans.
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This is a fabulous endeavor. When I visit Rwanda again, I’d like to visit the village. Please tell me where it is. I’d heard about a small Jewish community in Rwanda, and, as a Jew, I’m very interested. Thank you.