Miracle in Kigali

Thursday, 29 November 2012

50 Christmas Trees in a Church Dickleburgh Film

Here's a film from You Tube of last year's 50 Christmas Trees in a Church, Dickleburgh Norfolk. We are contributing a Miracle in Kigali tree for the 2012 festival, which runs from Sunday 2 to Sunday 9 December

Sunday, 25 November 2012

Miracle in Kigali heads for 50 Christmas Trees in a Church Dickleburgh

We are contributing a Christmas Tree again to 50 Christmas Trees in a Church Dickleburgh, South Norfolk. The Christmas tree festival will be officially opened by Norfolk Paralympian, Danny Nobbs on Saturday, December 1 at 6pm. The festival then runs from Sunday, December 2 to Sunday, December 9, open daily 10am to 7pm (closes 4pm on December 9 for prize giving).

This year, 50 Christmas Trees is raising money for WheelPower, a charity which provides sports wheelchairs for young disabled athletes.

Copies of Miracle in Kigali will be on sale at the event.

Monday, 5 November 2012

Connect2Rwanda Lunch at Norwich Roman Catholic Cathedral

The Cathedral of St John the Baptist Norwich is staging a fundraising lunch for Connect2Rwanda http://connect2rwanda.wordpress.com on Sunday 18 November at 12.30pm.

Fionula Murray, who has worked for CAFOD in different parts of Africa, will talk about the work of Connect2Rwanda. Lunch will be African style, including a traditional matoke dish from Rwanda.

Tickets are on sale in the Cathedral Shop: adult £5 and family £10 http://www.sjbcathedral.org.uk.

Miracle in Kigali will be available at the event; a donation from sales will go to Connect2Rwanda.

Miracle in Kigali e-book edition published

An ebook edition of Miracle in Kigali has been published by The Tagman Press www.tagmanpress.com

We are pleased to announce the publication of an e-book edition of Miracle in Kigali, now available from Amazon, Apple iBooks, Kobo and Waterstones.com. For more information about the ebook edition, click here: http://bit.ly/VuncpB

To buy Miracle in Kigali (traditional printed version) click here:
http://bit.ly/YKDcTr

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Great news: Miracle in Kigali will soon be available as an e-book for Kindle readers, published by The Tagman Press http://tagmanpress.blogspot.co.uk

Thursday, 8 December 2011

Miracle in Kigali tree at 50 Christmas Trees in a Church 2011

Here is a photograph of Illuminee with the Miracle in Kigali tree at 50 Christmas Trees in a Church, Dickleburgh, Norfolk. The Christmas tree festival, which runs until 11 December, is supporting Send a Cow http://www.sendacow.org.uk/, a UK based charity that helps African families grow enough food to eat, sell their produce and develop small businesses that last. The charity is active in Rwanda.

Christmas Trees of all shapes and sizes, some handmade featuring special seasonal messages, decorate the church, contributed to the event by local businesses and organisations and children’s groups. The event has a competitive edge, as each organisation that enters has the chance to win prize money in the visitors’ vote for the best trees. There is also a special award for the most innovative tree.

50 Christmas in a Church is being sponsored by Cherry Lane Garden Centre Pulham Market, Rosedale Funeral Home and TWP Designs.

Dickleburgh village is to the north of Diss, just off the A140, tel. 01379 854245, http://www.50christmastrees.com/.

Monday, 17 October 2011

Illuminee Nganemariya - The Guardian first person interview

This is a link to Henry Green's interview with Illuminee about how she wrote Miracle in Kigali to help rebuild her life http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/13/rwanda-genocide-survivor-book-rebuild

Miracle in Kigali Introduction

Miracle in Kigali

How does it feel to wake up every single morning for over three months facing the prospect that you and your newborn baby will almost certainly be brutally murdered that day?

This was the experience of Illuminée Nganemariya, a young Tutsi bride, now living in Norwich, England. Yet by a seeming miracle Illuminee, and her son Roger miraculously survived the 1994 attempt by Rwanda’s Hutu extremists to wipe their Tutsi neighbours from the face of the earth.

Illuminée existed for 100 days in the living hell of Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, after watching her husband being dragged away to be killed by friends who had celebrated their wedding with them a month earlier.

Then she embarked on a horrific journey through the barbaric holocaust with her newborn son strapped to her back. At any moment a wrong move would have seen them join the 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus who were murdered in three months - at a faster rate than the Nazis achieved in their industrial gas chambers.

One of Africa’s most beautiful and fertile countries, Le Pays de Mille Collines – The Land of a Thousand Hills – Rwanda descended into pre-historic savagery. Fired by a cocktail of drugs and alcohol, the killers went about their work seemingly without remorse or mercy.

Friend murdered friend, slashing and cutting with machetes and bamboo spears. Thousands of women were casually gang-raped. Pregnant women had their unborn babies ripped from their wombs and smashed against the nearest tree or wall. ‘Lucky’ victims paid for a quicker despatch, courtesy of a bullet to the head.

Illuminée Nganemariya is a survivor. She has spent the last decade, living in Norwich, dealing with the trauma of her 100-day nightmare. She is believed to be the first survivor of the Rwandan genocide resident in Britain to tell a personal story of that experience. With the assistance of Paul Dickson, Illuminee has recounted her ordeal in this book to finally put the memory of those tragic events behind her.

It is one woman’s story of enormous personal courage and character -- but most of all it is testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit.

Miracle in Kigali, price £12 can be purchased via Paul Dickson Books www.pauldicksonbooks.co.uk/miracle-in-kigali ; also available as an ebook on all main ebook sites including Amazon.

Finalist in The Creative East Awards 2008 Best Factual Publication.