No greater feeling

it has actually taken me about 2 years to write the experience i had summer 2009 with kuleba...because every time i thought of what to say i couldn't explain the feeling....kuleba has opened up my eyes to things i never knew were possible... the chance we had to bring gilbert and mukiza to the united states was amazing because you can only really believe something when you see it for yourself...as for many non Americans, America looks like a place of fun and everything is perfect.. which is not true..gilbert and mukiza had the chance to see that first hand... they thought all Americans teenagers partied all the time which for most of us isn't true...we went all over from p.a. to Washington dc, jersey and the most important and of course new york city..i just have to bring this back to the airport when i saw them in JFK...that moment brought tears to my eyes...because i was a part of making their long time dream a miracle...from then on we just had an amazing time showing them around..one thing that stuck to me was in the Holocaust museum Washington dc...the year before that we were in the Kigali memorial and the same exact faces i saw that day were the faces at the museum.. because they suffered through the same thing.. at the museum the genocide in Africa had there area also and i knew it felt good to see that there story is also heard here..because at the end of the day that's what they want for there stories to be heard so that something like this doesn't happen again....kuleba is just an eye opener and deserves to keep going for ever.. its showed me not to give up and when i want to give up on something i just think back and know that i cant because there are others that need help.. and i pretty sure this kuleba team will keep this going for years.. because the world needs everyone of us to never give up and make a difference ....for the people that made this possible many thanks...try and keep it coming so that we would be able to help there entire community because everyone deserves a chance to be able to go to school and have food....i hope this is to be continued because kuleba exchange has just begun

yours truly,
maria