Call to Action Day

Call to Action Day is an event where many students at NDNU and benefit the community. One can go off campus and help the community and earth, or you can stay on campus and play with children. The activity I took apart in was talking to a survivor. Our FYS class was able to talk to a survivor. from genocides. There stories were able to be heard by different students, following a panel afterword.

I was able to interview Bihama, a man who was a young child during the Rwanda genocide. The way he presented him self and talked of this genocide showed me that these events still impact him to this day. He talked lovingly about hi parents and the risks he took for his sisters. It still hurts him to talk about the last time seeing his mother or not being to see his sister because she is unable to get to the U.S. What impacted me the most though was him talking about the risks he took for his sisters. He was only a young boy, 13 at the time, when he and his sisters were sent with money to be refugees and flee from Rwanda. He did what he could to keep himself and his sisters alive which was an incredible sacrifice. They experienced a lot of terror and hardship. They were often out of money and unsure where they were headed, but Bihama knew he needed to protect his sisters and gave him motive to push on, no matter what it took.