My biggest concern about going to Rwanda was due to climate. I’m a man with climate anguish, who feels uncomfortable with going by car. Flying Arlanda-Kigali back and forth is at a completely different level and might very well be one of the most climate affecting things I’ll ever do. It’s pretty ironic; we went [...]

After the trip to Rwanda, I can now add some things to the list of “first time” that I keep in my head: Rwanda, Africa, anything south of the equator, everyone who I was traveling with, so few white people, mountain gorillas, so many happy faces, my sponsor child, such bad exhaust from cars, so [...]

We’ve been home for a few weeks and I’ve had time to reflect on the experience of CyberCare, CSR in action. What I think of first when I think of Rwanda is color. The colors of nature and clothing is so far away from Nordic city fashion, which is predominantly gray or black in the [...]

On our last day in Rwanda, we visited the Swedish embassy to learn more about the aid situation and to hear more on aid in Rwanda. We didn’t want to judge the situation just by the functioning of SOS Children’s villages project, but also hear more about aid and what works from the big donors.  [...]

We’ve met with 4 families that get support from SOS Children’s Villages Family Strengthening Support in Rwanda. The support takes different shapes depending on what the families need but can include a micro loan to start a business, payment of school fees, medical insurance, and support and help. A woman in Gikongoro we call the [...]

SOS has a program for strenghtening the families. SOS lends money so people can start a business so that they can provide better for their family. We met four of the families, that get help from SOS, and the help really shows. The women we talked to were full of hope, optimism and good plans [...]

Carebears made their way to Gikongoro SOS Children’s village, but that would not be their final home. They had to wait until the next day to see their new home. While waiting for that, they participated to the party that the kids in the village had thrown together for us. And they got to see [...]

This morning we got up at 3:30 and started to make our way to the national park and see some gorillas. Volcanoes National Park is the home of 900 mountain gorillas. 32 visit permits are given per day for tourists to go and see gorillas. We climbed and climbed up the hill with our guide, [...]

Today was the big “meet-the-children”-day. When we arrived to Gikongoro (“Cybercom’s” SOS Children’s village”) we first met with the representatives of the village, the village director, the coordinator of the family strengthening program, and some of the mothers of the twelve houses. And there was this little guy that I didn’t see, even though he [...]

Well it’s Maya, Satu-Maria, Kristina and Patrik. My first contact with them was during the summer, when I was informed that I was going to be entitled “CSR Ambassador”. So since then I’ve got to know their names and titles, seen photos of them, talked to them on the phone and have been mailing with [...]