Electricity is “iffy” in Bukavu. Unexpectedly, power goes off, and you wait patiently for the lights to go on, the fan to start, and most importantly when 9500 miles away, your internet and email connection. Also, you don’t want to be left without enough battery power for your camera.
While making the long drive out to one of Jewish World Watch’s projects in the village of Miti, of course, this happened to me. My camera battery died. Fortunately, others had cameras. Yet in all honesty, I found that I was able to take advantage of exhausting my camera. Instead, I could take-in every moment of the experience with the women of this impoverished area in South Kivu.
Click her to read the full article in the Huffington Post.