Original Story Published by: Jean de la Croix Tabaro for KT Press
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(Above) Damas Gisimba and children at Gisimba orphanage in Nyamirambo, Kigali.
Brandon Stanton – an American author, photographer, and blogger who tours the world to tell stories of particular communities has already raised about $ 400,000 in three days in a fundraising whose inspiration came from Rwanda.
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The money is double compared to his initial target of $200,000.
Stranton was in Rwanda last week where he gathered testimonies of Genocide survivors and those who rescued them, or contributed to the rehabilitation of the Rwandan community in a way or another.
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Among other testimonies, Brandon met Damas Gisimba a Rwandan philanthropist who run an orphanage he inherited from his father until recently when Rwanda closed down orphanages.
The Gisimba Orphanage has been managed by three generations of the Gisimba family.
It has sheltered thousands of children over the years, many of who were orphaned by violence. During the 1994 Genocide, ‘Papa Damas’ Gisimba rescued the lives of hundreds of people by turning the orphanage into a safe haven for Tutsi refugees.
“As we chronicle his story on Humans of New York, we are raising money to help him continue his work on behalf of children,” Brandon wrote over the week-end while launching the fundraising.
The funds which was $391,270 at press time will be used in two ways, according to Brandon.
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