From Rwandan Garbage Dump To Harvard

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January 8, 2015

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You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

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From Rwandan Garbage Dump To Harvard

After 2-year old Justus' parents vanished during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, he lived in a stripped-out car in the Kigali City Dump, surviving on food scraps thrown out by nearby restaurants and hotels. Six years later, Clare Effiong was driving through Rwandan dirt roads in a taxi cab, looking for ways to "do good." Her intuition told her to pull over when she saw a group of children, including Justus, on the side of the road. After learning that Justus wanted to go to school, Clare found him a place to stay and paid for his schooling. Justus was a brilliant student and eventually earned admission into Harvard University. Today, Justus believes passionately that "What has been done for him, he must now do for others...Self-affirmation requires him to pay it forward." Read on to learn more about this remarkable story. { read more }