People Making A Difference
She hadn't yet made the pilgrimage made by the thousands of tourists, discount michael kors business people, aid workers, and diplomats who pass through this tiny East African country each year.
Inevitably, they visit Gisozi.
Near the top of Gisozi, a hill set back from the hustle and bustle of downtown Kigali, the Rwandan capital, stands the Kigali Memorial Center. It commemorates Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Within 100 days, 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by militant Hutu soldiers and informal militias determined to wipe out the country's ethnic Tutsi minority.
The center's most moving tribute may be its Children's Room. In a sun-drenched space with bright orange walls, visitors learn the stories of 14 of the children who died in the genocide. They peer back at visitors from large photographs - toddling across a room, posing for a portrait, blowing out a first birthday candle.
Below the photos are short, poignant biographies: Francine, age 12, liked swimming; eggs; and "Fanta tropical," the local lemon-flavored soda. She was killed with a machete.
Ms. Lam would later visit the center. But on the day she sat down with some of michael kors factory Gisimba Orphanage's 200 young people she had no idea that their stories would sound so similar, expressing a love of simple things: Patrick, 15, wants to be an engineer. He likes telling jokes, basketball, and Charlie Chaplin movies. He has no memory of the genocide, and he does not know who his parents were.
"It was really heavy stuff," Lam says of the interviews with the orphans. "But it was also inspiring . She's a senior michael kors purse outlet concept designer at American Eagle Outfitters in New York and a member of the board of its charitable foundation.
When she told her bosses that she wanted to take a three-month sabbatical from work to volunteer in Rwanda, she also orchestrated a major donation: American Eagle sent michael kors handbags with her 18 boxes of donated goods - first-aid supplies, soccer balls, book bags, toys, and, of course, clothes.
The project seemed so straightforward - so easy, almost. Lam realized she had tapped a well of charitable goodwill in the fashion industry.
"I know a lot of people in the industry. I can get free stuff. I can work my connections with the foundation and have them ship discount michael kors handbags stuff. I can get donations together," she says.
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