It cools off into the pleasant 70s in the evening. The vast majority of Rwandans live by growing their own food. Anything extra is sold to purchase necessities such as salt and soap. Weddings - June 22 Stop by a church on a Saturday afternoon in Rwanda and you will likely find several weddings going on. The couples sit with their attendants in the front pews and wait for the point in the service when the priest tells them to rise.
Goats are far more common than cows, it seems.
They cost much less than a cow. Their manure is used for fertilizer, but their milk is not commonly consumed . We are in Ntarama, about an hour southeast of the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Here, at a church and its grounds, is one of the grimmest scenes on Earth - a memorial to just a fraction of those killed in the 1994 genocide that destroyed almost 1 million men, women and children in Rwanda. Into the Congo Martha and I hitched a ride to Bukavu, a city in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with staff members of an International Rescue Committee office located there.