Zoom recording of 2025 Volunteer Trip Information Session.  

 

Movies and Videos

• Sometimes in April

• Shooting Dogs

• Ghosts of Rwanda

• Shake Hands with the Devil (YouTube)

• Triage: Dr. Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma (2008)

 

Videos about INSPIRE!africa​​

• Legal and Trauma Counselling Helpline

  • INSPIRE!africa has been supporting the Helpline since it was established in 2013. This free Helpline supports youth survivors with outstanding legal disputes or suffering from trauma and provides them with access to counseling and legal services regardless of where they live. This video demonstrates the significant benefits of the Helpline.  

• Making a Difference

  • This video describes the programs supported by INSPIRE!africa. It was filmed by Ken (Roy) Christie, an INSPIRE!africa volunteer, during our 2014 volunteer trip to Rwanda.

• A Morale Lifting Visit

  • This video was created by Gilbert Sibomana, a student sponsored by INSPIRE!africa.  Gilbert captures the gratitude of the students attending the Rwanda Multi-Learning Centre, during a visit by INSPIRE!africa volunteers.  

• Finding Hope and Inspiration in Rwanda 2010

  • This video is a story of hope and inspiration in Rwanda and the work being done by INSPIRE!africa to support survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.  It was created by Dennis Ekvall, a participant on INSPIRE!africa’s 2010 Volunteer Trip to Rwanda.​

• Rising from the Ashes - narrated by Mike Farrell

  • This video, narrated by Mike Farrell of M*A*S*H fame, is a story of how orphans of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide are able to rebuild their lives through the Rwanda Multi Learning Center, a project that was sponsored by INSPIRE!africa from 2008-2014.​

 

Books: Non-Fiction

  

•  Will Ferguson - Road Trip Rwanda​

• Christine Magill - The Hope that Remains: Canadian Survivors of the Rwanda Genocide

• Rosamond Carr - Land of a Thousand Hills: my life in Rwanda

• Romeo Dallaire - Shake Hands with The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

• Philip Gourevitch - We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

• Jean Hatzfeld - Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak

• Stephen Kinzer - A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It (about Paul Kagame)

• Catherine Claire Larson - As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda

• Linda Melvern - Conspiracy to Murder. The Rwanda Genocide

• Linda Melvern - A People Betrayed. The Role of the West

• James Orbinski – An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the 21st Century

• Joseph Sebarenzi - God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation

• Barbara Coloroso - Extraordinary Evil: A Brief History Of Genocide And Why It Matters

• Romeo Dallaire – Waiting for First Light

• Jacqueline Novogratz – The Blue Sweater

• UwemAkpan – Say You’re One of Them

• Shaharyar Khan – The Shallow Graves of Rwanda

• Carl Wilkens – I’m Not Leaving

• Eric Irivuzumagabe – My Father, Maker of the Trees

• Jean Hatzfeld – The Strategy of Antelopes

• Immaculee Ilibagiza – Left to Tell

• Josh Ruxin – A Thousand Hills to Heaven

• Patricia Crisafulli and Andrea Redmond – Rwanda Inc.

• John Yves Bizimana – Escape from Rwanda

   

Books: Fiction

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• Gaile Parkin - Baking Cakes in Kigali

• Namoni Benaron - Running the Rift

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Websites

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• Network for Africa

• Survivors Fund

• Solace

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Stories from INSPIRE!africa's Volunteers​

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To learn about past volunteer trips to Rwanda, please see;

• the summer 2010 and summer 2012 newsletters 

• 'You Learn More Than You Teach, testimonial, by a previous volunteer Pamela Romanchuk,

• 2018 Rwanda Volunteer Trip