Girls In The Spotlight: A Lesson From Rwanda

When I try to get people interested in the education cause in Rwanda, they often tell me that they’re up to their eyeballs in work on public or charter schools in their own neighborhoods – Upper West Side, Noe Valley, wherever. Some people, though, have a broad definition of “neighborhood.”

A couple of years back, two women from Seattle approached me about the possibility of establishing a girls’ school here in Rwanda. I’ve grown accustomed to receiving countless entrepreneurial inquiries from well-meaning people and seeing little come of them, so I must admit that my first reaction was skepticism.

Girls In The Spotlight: A Lesson From Rwanda
Josh Ruxin | On the Ground | Nicholas D. Kristof | The New York Times | March 21