This blog will chronicle my medical volunteer work with Village Health Works in Burundi.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The dancing girls



The following are pictures of the girls' dance troupe. In the first one, they are doing a group photo, posing for the camera. In the second, as you will see, they are actually dancing. The girls are so adorable, and the dancing so touching that it would bring tears to your eyes (it did to mine anyway).


Note: that is Melino in the background, clapping as the girls dance.

The girls have never had uniforms. They had seen pictures of girls from Bujumbura in dance uniforms. For a relatively small price, a certain muganga, who shall remain nameless, purchased them himself. This particular muganga did not do the choosing or the actual buying of the uniforms. Let us just say that he made the appropriate donation. The cliche says that "it is better to give than receive." That cliche could not have been more true for the unknown muganga than it was when the girls put on their new uniforms. You cannot imagine the girls' joy and excitement.





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