Relief Organizations Rwanda

Death we have seen, and by the numbing long ton. But imagine this other ordeal: being left alone in the world with nothing. Sick, naked, wet in a pool of your own uncontrollable excrement, too weak to do anything except tremble. Not a possession, no family or friends, no country, perhaps not even a name you can remember. "And these are the lucky ones.

Spanish nuns, Swedish civil defense workers, French doctors have come to bind this nation's wounds, hug its orphans and mend its schools. But for one small group of Americans, the sense of duty and dedication is as personal as their genes and family tree. Their skin, like that of the Rwandans, is black. "For me, when we made that 'middle passage' to America, it didn't sever our ties or our responsibilities," Cary Alan Johnson says.

Spanish nuns, Swedish civil defense workers, French doctors have come to bind this nation's wounds, hug its orphans and mend its schools. But for one small group of Americans, the sense of duty and dedication is as personal as their genes and family tree. Their skin, like that of the Rwandans, is black. "For me, when we made that 'middle passage' to America, it didn't sever our ties or our responsibilities," Cary Alan Johnson says.

Death we have seen, and by the numbing long ton. But imagine this other ordeal: being left alone in the world with nothing. Sick, naked, wet in a pool of your own uncontrollable excrement, too weak to do anything except tremble. Not a possession, no family or friends, no country, perhaps not even a name you can remember. "And these are the lucky ones.