Category: Experience

  • Budding Futures

    Budding Futures

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    Shannon Foley
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    “I don’t call it peace necessarily, I am just doing what the community needs” Gakire explains to a group of students he has taken to his newly established Dusego Empowerment Hub (DEH). Localized peacebuilding is a lesson I’ve heard in lectures and read in books, but one I didn’t deeply understand until I visited Dusego…

  • Not just another Saturday in May

    Not just another Saturday in May

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    Daria Santi
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    Until the Monday before, I didn’t know who Dieudonné Gakire was, and I had never heard of the Dusego Empowerment Hub. Yet on Saturday, 11 May, 2024, I found myself part of a group of volunteers carrying donated books into the library room of the new community hall and planting trees to the front and…