In the same vein of the article I mentioned the other day, this article by Reuters from South Africa talks about a government policy to limit family size. The article referenced the other day talked about family planning, or use of birth control, but this article mentions "rewarding" couples for having no more than three children. So far, there are no punitive damages mentioned but I'm sorry - is this a precursor to another China? This is downright scary... more

In a New York Times article today, the headline screams After So Many Deaths, Too Many Births. The country’s population has quadrupled over the last half-century. Today Rwanda has 8.8 million people; most are subsistence farmers. According to the article, if current fertility rates are not curbed — Rwandan women bear an average of 6.1 children — the population will double by 2030. That would almost certainly doom Mr. Kagame’s ambitious plan to raise Rwanda from poverty... more

In 1999, an American photographer visting Rwanda and Rosamond's orphanage was so taken by the Imbabazi children that he conceived of a photo workshop to teach them how to use a camera. When he returned in 2000, he gave them disposable cameras to put those skills to the test, and what they revealed was Rwanda as seen through their eyes.

Their project became known as "Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project," and they came to be known as the Camera Kids.

From their website, we read:

Through... more