Thank You to Platte Valley Hospital ( Brighton, Colorado) for their donation of Resuscitation Equipment. This will be used to teach basic Neonatal Resuscitation to the staff at Mugonero Hospital.
RWANDA, located in Central Africa is reffered to as the "Land of a Thousand Hills." The landlocked country lies 1,270 km west of the Indian Ocean, about 120 km south of the equator, in the Tropic of Capricon. It is 2,000 km east of the Atlantic, located in the heart of Africa. The Country is surrounded by Uganda in the north, Burundi in the south, Tanzania in the east and Zaire to its west and northwest
HUMAN STATISTICS:
Language: Kinyarwanda, French, English and Swahili are also spoken. Population: Approximately 8.01 million; 46% male, 54% female. Density: 290 per km. Rwanda can be visited at anytime of the year. June to September is the long dry season and is the best time for tracking Gorillas and hiking in Nyungwe.
The lake is a 2650 square kilometre freshwater expanse and the largest of all the lakes that fill the valleys of Rwanda.The beautiful lake is enclosed by the steep terraced hills that are characteristic of rural Rwanda and sitting on its shores are the three lakeside towns of Cyangugu, Kibuye and Gisenyi. The perfect tourist transit points between the Chimpanzee tracking destination of Nyungwe Forest National Park in the south, and gorilla tracking in Parc National des Volcans in the north.
