Rwanda is one of the smallest countries on the African continent, and the most densely populated one. There are around 463 inhabitants per 1km2 here! Due to its natural landscape, Rwanda is sometimes referred to as a land of a thousand hills, and due to its history, also a land of a thousand problems.
24.04.2024
Hospice care is not about facing the end but about healing and guiding people back onto a path they can continue to follow. Take Teresa’s story, for instance—her experience at our Kabuga facility feels like winning a second chance at life. Having nearly reached her end following a severe stroke, she believes that without the hospice, she wouldn’t be with us today. Here, she has managed to reset her clock.
Teresa has regained her strength thanks to the exceptional hospice team, benefiting from physiotherapy, a tailored diet, comfortable living conditions, and freedom from worries about tomorrow. It’s the only such place in Rwanda. While she loved to travel in her previous life, now she has no desire to leave this place.
She adores the staff and has taken a particular liking to one nurse, brightening up whenever he appears.
“What’s Kinshasa like?”, we ask. She pauses to gather her thoughts as memories vividly come to life before her. In her mind she’s transported to the capital of Congo, vividly painting the scenes she remembers.
Such conversations can last for hours. In Kabuga, Teresa feels not only cared for but truly heard.
We spend our days here laughing with patients and observing the lives of those who have become friends. Here, it’s not about dying; it’s about living fully until the very end. And we wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. It’s a place where you just want to be.
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13.06.2024
Before coming to Kabuga, she went through a lot. She didn’t have the conditions to be sick, but the illness didn’t take that into account. Abandoned, lonely, and neglected, she experienced the cruelty of poverty and lack of independence. When she arrived in Kabuga, it was as if her life began again. The patients come […]
25.04.2024
“My dad died because he knew they would catch up with him anyway. He didn’t want to run. He didn’t have the strength for it. He preferred to end it where everything began.” Thirty years have passed since the Rwandan genocide. M. still loves dogs deeply, though dogs are rarely considered friends in Rwanda. She […]
17.04.2024
Words aren’t always necessary to express everything. Cathie hardly speaks, yet no one conveys gratitude quite like she does. A severe stroke took away her ease of animating stories and memories with colorful narratives. At the Kabuga hospice, everyone understands how to listen to those who cannot speak. Here, everyone understands the language of pain, […]
