Murasira's Story of Hope
11 year-old Murasira and his brother cried because they knew they were now alone. Their mother and father were dead.
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With no family or friends to take them in, the young boys would have to take care of themselves and their home.
Their father died, brutally, at the hands of Rwandan friends and neighbors during the genocide of 1994. Their mother had just lost her battle with AIDS. The two brothers, like scores of children in Rwanda, were now orphans, left to raise themselves.
The years passed and the two brothers grew a few vegetables to feed themselves and found odd jobs to make a few cents. As they grew older the boys grew restless. Eventually, not knowing what else to do, Murasira’s older brother decided that he must leave the country to try to make better money.
Murasira was now the head of his household. He was alone, but determined to carry on with his life. Armed only with a second grade education and maturity beyond his 15 years, he went to work doing odd jobs here and there to buy food. He vowed that he would survive to be an adult.
Then ADRA came to help. Continue
