After a long summer of waiting (the weather made it feel more like a long winter), I’ve got a start date -- September 29th. That’s when I’ll be starting a week of training in Boston, going to the Partners in Health symposium, and meeting the team there. The following week I’ll be flying to Kigali… where I’ll be for possibly a year.
As I mentioned before, I’m going to be mentoring local computer programmers so they can work on an electronic medical records system built on OpenMRS. I’ll be responsible for a small group of students and will teach and set exercises to develop their programming skills. Rwanda is an exciting place for a computer geek like me -- the government has ambitious plans to become the IT hub of Central Africa, and if they get this medical records system going, they’ll be doing better than us in the UK!
I’m really looking forward to being back in Rwanda -- the warm air, the banana trees, the thunder and lightning, the crazy matatu taxis and the red dirt that gets everywhere!
My friend Tom sent me the video below -- a song written by Brooke Fraser when she got back from Rwanda. I’m not usually a Hillsongs kind of guy but I like this song, and the video is gorgeous.
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