12 years after my dad's death, I returned to Rwanda to meet the boy he had sponsored and see the impact of his actions.
My dad, a secondary school teacher in England, spent a few years managing a fundraising and sponsorship scheme in Gisenyi, Rwanda It’s been 14 years since I last saw Charles in person. We are having lunch in a busy cafe on a hot March day in Kigali, Rwanda. With a decade to catch up on, even though we aren’t related by blood, we still refer to each other as brothers, my family as his family. Then Charles’ voice saddens – which it often does when he talks about my dad in the past tense.
There was gratitude as I was shown books sent by my school, from the coach who praised the courts that we had fundraised to build. They spoke of the sadness they felt after his death, how they had lost a dear friend. I felt his memory being carried along through the people, the buildings and books, and that he was more alive there than he had felt to me for 12 years. A view of the Gisenyi school I also felt uneasy, because it seemed that within the gratitude lay some resentment.
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