Caitie Gibbons is a Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) in Rwanda.
She was accepted into the Peace Corps in February 2012, and officially became a
PCV in July 2012. She resides in the capital city of Rwanda, Kigali, and
volunteers through an NGO called CHF, within the Ejo Heza Project. Ejo Heza,
Kinyarwanda for “brighter future” is implemented to improve the livelihoods
of Rwanda’s rural poor, focusing particularly on women. Within their program’s
framework Gibbons intervenes in three areas: behaviour change and communication,
gender and development, and health and nutrition.
In addition to being a PCV
Gibbons is also an artist. Graduating from Parson’s the New School for Art and Design in 2011;
she is a conceptual artist working in many mediums including: painting, drawing,
sculpture, video and printmaking. She marries the two different lives daily
equally passionate about her service and making art. If all goes according to
plan Gibbons will finish her Peace Corps service in July 2014. For more
information, leave a comment on this blog or email her at: cgibbons00@gmail.com.
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Hi Caitie -
ReplyDeleteGreat Blog !, I enjoyed reading through your experiences and seeing the photos. Your folks come to me for their haircuts, they told me about your trip and blog. I'm Marc, formerly of Stylers, worked with Barb & Val, and attend St. Joseph's.
I sympathized with your heart-felt recounting of your spiritual journey, "Are You There God ?", - much of which I could identify with at one point or another.
Don't know how much internet time you get, if you get a chance, you might enjoy checking these out -
Faith Fired by Literature
Art, life, and religious faith converge in Paul Elie's unusual biography of the intersecting stories of four literary Americans of the 20th century: Trappist monk Thomas Merton, social activist Dorothy Day, and fiction writers Walker Percy and Flannery O'Connor. "Certain books, certain writers," Elie says, "reach us at the center of ourselves."
http://www.onbeing.org/program/faith-fired-literature/99/audio
http://www.amazon.com/Life-You-Save-May-Your/dp/0374529213
James Martin S.J., , he worked for two years with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Nairobi, Kenya, where he helped East African refugees start small businesses,also worked in a hospice for the sick and dying with the Missionaries of Charity in Kingston, Jamaica, and worked in an outreach program with street-gang members in the inner city, and at a community center where he helped unemployed men and women.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8WkZblkeNo
Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche communities
http://www.onbeing.org/program/wisdom-tenderness/234/audio
Hope all is well, - Marc