I Grew Up In A Refugee Camp

Aid Makes Itself Superfluous If It Is Working Well. Good Aid Takes Care To Provide Functioning Structures And Good Training That Enables The Recipient Country To Later Get By Without Foreign Aid. Otherwise, It Is Bad Aid.

Infrastructure Is Key, But Also How It's Used, And That's Political.

Rwanda Is A Very Open And Free Country. Key To Our Recovery As A Nation Has A Range Of Grassroots, Citizen-centered Polices We Call "homegrown Solutions." The Idea That Rwanda Is Highly Controlled From The Center Belies The Reality, Which Is That Citizens In Every Village Have A Powerful Say In How Things Get Done. We Prize Accountability And Rwandans Are Quickly Adapting Themselves To The Possibilities Of A Digital Economy.

Politics Is Not Only About Personal Choice. That One Also Needs To Take Into Consideration What The People Want Because In The End, They Are The Ones Who Decide.

It Is The First Time In The History Of Rwanda That Political Change In The Highest Leadership Of The Country Has Taken Place In Peace And Security.