From left: Upper Valley high school students Kylie Butler, Rebecca Young-Ward and Lizzy King listen as 18-year-old Eraste Byiringiro, whose father died of AIDS and whose mother is ill, describes his daily life in Kigali, Rwanda, where he was in the second week of an auto mechanics internship. The students visited the country as a part of Operation Day’s Work. (Riccardo Gangale photograph)
36 Hours and 2 Worlds Apart
Six students and adults from Thetford Academy and The Sharon Academy traveled to Rwanda on Dec. 6 to make connections with Rwandan young people who had been orphaned by AIDS. Valley News reporter Sonia Scherr accompanied them on the 10-day trip with a grant from the Pulitzer Center On Crisis Reporting. More information on this and other projects can be found at the Pulitzer Center's Web site at www.pulitzercenter.org.