Video from eMi’s Gate of Hope Project

Several weeks ago, I highlighted the work that eMi: East Africa has done with Gate of Hope (see earlier post). The below video gives a few glimpses into that project, which was the first project on which my friend Jeff worked after joining eMi staff and moving to Uganda with his family.

Jeff first appears at 0:35 in the following video.

 

The video hints at several things that Jeff explained very well in his blog. For further information on this project, here are links to posts on Jeff’s blog, along with previews of each post:
 

• Gate of Hope is run by Rwandans, for Rwandans. It provides several useful services in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. These include: a preschool, a church, a job training center for widows, counseling for widows and orphans of the genocide, and training for lay counselors. These functions were all housed in an overcrowded building. That’s where Jeff’s eMi team was asked to step in and help. Read more here.
• For a bit more information on the eMi team that helped with this project, check out this post, which also provides some details on the engineering work that went into the Gate of Hope project.
• Finally, this post explains some of the technical challenges the team faced. It also shows drawings of the master plan.

After watching the video and looking through the posts above, you ought to come away with a fairly strong sense of the excellent work that eMi is doing in East Africa!