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What Magnificence Can Do

Over 121,000 lives literally wiped off the face of the Earth in a terrible wall of water risen beyond it's boundaries.

The terrible tragedy wrought by the Indian Ocean quake and resulting tsunami, has us all shaking our heads and asking and wondering "What can I do?"

Mary Kayitesi Blewitt

 

I try to give people hope.  Ten years ago, the women I met there didn't want to live.  Now they have self-worth.  But there's still so much more to achieve

I was born a refugee. My parents left Rwanda in 1959, though some of my family later returned. But I have lived in the UK since 1986, when I met my husband Richard.

My family are Tutsis, on of Rwanda's two main tribes. In April 1994, the government called on the other tribe, the Hutus, to wipe out the Tutsis.

As a result, more than one million people died. As soon as I heard about the genocide, I knew
I had to help. I flew to Rwanda three months after massacre began.  There were so many orphans, they were clinging on to me, begging me to take them.