The International Day of Peace is a good moment to consider the words of the French philosopher Blaise Pascal. Four hundred years ago, he wrote: All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Every day at Network for Africa, we confront the consequences of peoples’ inability to refrain […]

We drive up a rough, rutted road of red dirt to a simple, rectangular, breeze-block building with a corrugated iron roof – the community meeting place or village hall. The sound of roosters crowing drifts across the valley, along with the aromatic smoke from cooking fires. Below us on the valley floor, women in dazzling […]

For twenty years, we have worked in Rwanda. Yet, we have been aware there is also great need for what we offer in the less well-known country next door, Burundi. Like Rwanda, it is green and mountainous, with most of its population depending on subsistence agriculture. It exports coffee, tea and fish, and it had […]