Rwanda
Only 7% of the Rwanda population goes to secondary school. Sister J_______, who you see here in the picture, has 230 girls in her school. Half of them are orphans. Many of them saw their parents killed by machete in the genocide that ripped through Rwanda in just 100 days in 1994. Some of the girls were raped.
She speaks quietly. 'We watch the girls carefully', she says.'Sometimes the memories become too much. But our support has to be on an individual basis. Every girl responds in a different way. And now we have AIDS. On top of everything, some of the girls are testing positive.'
