June 6, 2017

Sr. Athanasie Kayigamkia receives a hug from one of the older residents of the Abizeramariya orphanage in Huye, Rwanda. As the child survivors of the genocide moved on to start their own families, the orphanages returned to their original purpose as homes for impoverished elderly people. (GSR photo / Melanie Lidman)

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist

(Read more about the Kayigamkia orphanage in this story by Melanie Lidman on Global Sisters Report.)

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