{{Majority of youths in foreign countries presume that modern Rwandan history is all summed up in the movie \u201cHotel Rwanda\u201d which is popularly shown to students as a basic Rwandan history lesson that addresses the 1994 Tutsi Genocide.}}<\/p>\n
Fourteen students from US Harwood Union High School with their English teacher Steve Rand and 4 students from Woonsocket, believe that this movie doesn\u2019t do any Justice to the country\u2019s history and have set out to learn about it first hand when they visit Rwanda for their first time next Sunday with world renowned journalist of the Addison independent Andrea Suozzo for three weeks.<\/p>\n
The group\u2019s trip will be memorialized as \u201cStories of hope\u201d where the students will be visiting the genocide memorials and different museums across Rwanda where they will learn and record the true complexities of the political and social background that caused the genocide to occur.<\/p>\n
These 18 students and their teacher for the past two years have included a multimedia effort which will help the students process the new experiences they will encounter during their journey.<\/p>\n
Instructors in ethnography and multimedia will help students use recording equipment. The true lesson the instructors wish to teach is how to take the time to listen, experience and also share meaningful
\nstories during their expedition.<\/p>\n
Suozzo told IGIHE.com by email that he was looking forward to immersing himself in a completely unfamiliar country, with rich history that has bought an amazing new reality to today\u2019s world.<\/p>\n
Suozzo will be leaving his comfort zone of his desk at the Addison independent, for his first taste of the equatorial heat of the sub Saharan Africa. <\/p>\n
He says he believes it will all be worth it, for his trip won\u2019t be about a group of foreigners travelling a thousand miles just to get a few pictures of gorilla\u2019s nor to experience exotic music and dancing but instead its a journey of justice for these students that wish to do justice to the stories they will bring back with them.<\/p>\n
The instructors want the students to personally see for themselves what has made Rwanda one of the country\u2019s globally recognized places to design and build information technology.<\/p>\n
Suozzo wrote \u201cI\u2019m ready to go and soak up every bit of knowledge (and sunshine) I possibly can, and to help 18 high school students bring back their own stories of what they have learned there.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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