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Do you celebrate your birthday every year? Probably a strange question, isn’t it? But a friend of our project celebrates his birthday for the first time in 40 years!
But in an unusual way! He would like you to help him to celebrate this birthday in a special way – and we ask you to help him. But read for yourself!
„My name is Charles Hategekimana from Rwanda and I’m turning 40 years old on March 18, 2020. Practically, I have never celebrated any of my 39 birthdays due to some past circumstances faced in life, that many other people around the world may be facing today.
In fact, this was due to my rural upbringing where most people do not celebrate birthdays as such. I have never experienced it as part of our rural culture. I sometimes conclude that birthday celebration is not really a rural culture, at least referring to my context that I know very well.
For many, there are more needs than just spending on birthdays. Having not celebrated my birthday in my history on earth is also related to the Rwandan history that many people of the world know whereby the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi has psychologically affected many people, including myself. Until many years in its aftermath and even today, psychological consequences are are still felt and not easy to escape. It is funny that even when I got the possibility to celebrate my birthday, I never felt any need. My lovely wife Anitha can testify more on this, but please don’t ask her and don’t also tell our 3 under 10 daughters 😁
Moreover, even during a couple of years (2009-2011 and 2017 to date) that I have spent outside of Rwanda, I have never felt any need to celebrate my birthday in spite of some good friends of mine trying to surprise me and eventually inviting me for their own birthdays. I enjoy these moments anyway. Interestingly, I don’t even plan to celebrate this 40th birthday for myself, but rather I am thinking of many other vulnerable children in Rwanda, like anywhere else in the world, who are going through terrible situations such as lack of education, food and shelter among other basic things of life.
Therefore, if you are willing to support one or more of those vulnerable children in Rwanda, please donate anything small or big through the attached link. You will be helping me to celebrate my 4th decade (40th Birthday) on earth this way while I am even far away from my family doing my PhD project in Germany, also directed to rural areas and vulnerable people in my home-country. Doing this, you will also be helping me to thank God that I was born for a good cause. Trust me: God will bless you for your donation directed to the education of these vulnerable kids in Rwanda. Thank you very much for helping to celebrate my 40th birthday: Happy Birthday to me 😎.“
Please give whatever you can. Every donation counts!
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Nun hieß es rasch eine neue Route herauszusuchen. Glücklicherweise gibt es in dieser Region genug andere Paßstraßen und so trug uns unser treues Motorrad hinauf auf die Höhen des Kühtai-Sattels.
Am 2. September hatte es geregnet, so daß wir eine kleine Fahrpause einlegten. Die nächste Gelegenheit ergab sich bei unserer Tour über das Hahntennjoch und das Furkajoch am 3. September. Dank des wunderbaren Wetters konnten wir bei unseren kleinen Zwischenstopps auch das wunderbare Panorama genießen. Eine Reise mit dem Motorrad über die Paßstraßen in den Bergen ist wirklich ein traumhaftes Erlebnis, das ich nur jedem Motorradfahrer empfehlen kann.
Die letzte Gelegenheit zum direkten Gespräch darüber ergab sich schließlich in unserer 
It was pleasantly cool up there and so we walked a few more steps up the mountain before we settled down in the inn „Sonne & Schnee“ to have a cappuccino. Here we had the opportunity to tell the friendly waitress about our Rwanda project and again left some information material. This was the penultimate opportunity to talk to people about our project, because most of the time afterwards we were sitting on our motorbike. And as you know, you don’t have the opportunity to talk to others. But of course we have also left our traces 🙂
On September 2nd it had rained, so we had a short break to drive. The next opportunity arose during our tour over the cols „Hahntennjoch“ and „Furkajoch“ on September 3rd. Thanks to the wonderful weather we could also enjoy the wonderful panorama during our little stops. A trip with the motorcycle over the pass roads in the mountains is really a fantastic experience that I can only recommend to every motorcyclist.
In the afternoon I finally had the opportunity to catch up on the postponed tour over the col „Stilfserjoch“ and the Umbrail Pass. The road up to the Stilfserjoch with its hairpin bends is quite demanding to drive but it is also great fun. This tour was the last one, because on the following day we started our way back home. The days had passed much too fast. But we remember the excursions all the better – and the opportunity to make our educational project a little better known.
Dieses Motto habe ich kurzerhand für unsere einwöchige Motorrad-Tour nach Österreich übernommen. Am 30.8. machte ich mich mit meiner Tochter A.M. auf den Weg und hatte mir zuvor überlegt, ich könnte doch die Gelegenheit nutzen, um in einer Gegend Europas etwas von unserem Projekt zu erzählen, wohin die Kunde von unserem Bildungspatenschaftsprogramm noch nicht vorgedrungen ist.
Hier hatte ich erstmalig Gelegenheit, von unserem Ruanda-Projekt zu erzählen. Die schöne Atmosphäre und unser netter Kellner Andrea machten mir Mut, von unserem Engagegment zugunsten der Kinder in Ruanda zu berichten. Umso mehr, als er mir erzählte, daß sein Chef auch ein Patenkind in Afrika hat. Also hinterließ ich einen kleinen Aufkleber und einen Flyer und Andrea versprach mir, beides gut sichtbar auszulegen. Nach einem gemeinsamen Foto und einer herzlichen Verabschiedung ging es wieder auf die Straße.
This is the motto I took on for our one-week motorcycle tour to Austria. On August, 30, I set off with my daughter A.M. and had thought before, I could use the opportunity to tell something about our project in a region of Europe, where the information of our educational sponsorship program has not yet arrived.
Here, for the first time, I had the opportunity to talk about our Rwanda project. The nice atmosphere and our nice waiter Andrea encouraged me to report about our commitment to the children in Rwanda. All the more when he told me that his boss also has a fosterchild in Africa. So I left a small sticker and a flyer and Andrea promised me to display both clearly visible. After a common photo and a cordial farewell we went back on the street.
Mein Name ist Alleluia, ich bin 23 Jahre alt und stolz Ruander zu sein. Ich wurde in der westlichen Provinz Ruanda geboren und bin der Erstgeborene in einer Familie mit zwei Kindern.
Alleluia is my name, I am 23 years old and proudly Rwandan. I was born in the western province of Rwanda and I am a firstborn in a family of two children.
Eine Welt - One World 