Episode 186: Maggy Barankitse
Maggy Barankitse is the founder of Maison Shalom, an orphanage and school that was created in Burundi in the wake of the Civil War there in the 1990s.
Like in neighboring Rwanda, the conflict in Burundi involved acts of genocide pitting ethnic groups against each other.
The conflict came to Barankitse's town on October 24th, 1993. At the time, she was wor…
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