Better Tomorrows for Rwanda
By Ryan • Oct 18th, 2007 • Category: Loose Ends, News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyBy Zach Honig of PopPhoto.com:
“While traveling in Africa with then Newsweek Health Editor Geoffrey Cowley in February of 2006, Newsweek contract photographer Jonathan Torgovnik sat through what he described as the most horrifying interview of his entire career. The journalists met with Margaret, an HIV-positive survivor of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 who recounted the murder of her entire family and her brutal rape.
“We heard what she went through during the genocide and we were all in tears,” Torgovnik said. “She told us the consequences of what she was left with, 12 years after the genocide at the time — with HIV and a child. I thought to myself, wow, this is a crazy story, I wonder how many kids like this are in Rwanda.”
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