(국제) 르완다의 슬픔을 딛고서
(국제) 르완다의 슬픔을 딛고서
And another miracle on 34th street. How baskets sold at Macy’s are helping Rwandan women weave짜다 엮다 a better life? When you’re buying a holiday gift, chances are you don’t give that much thought to who made it or where it came from. But Dave Price tells us there is one gift you can buy in this country that has a priceless impact on women a world away. And to meet those women, Dave traveled to the African nation of Rwanda.
They are not the sights and sounds usually associated with Rwanda. But these women are rejoicing in their nation’s rebirth, one they’ve helped bring about. Women like Joy and Goosey are weaving Rwanda back together quite literally. But consider how hard it must be to move beyond one of the most intensive killing campaigns in human history. In an ethnic cleansing between April and July 1994, Hutu citizens and militias killed an estimated 800,000 of their Tutsi neighbors and sympathizers.
Women were raped, children mutilated절단 불구로 만들다, and men massacred살해하다. After the genocide대량학살, women outnumbered men 70%-30%. "I see an opportunity to empower능력을 부여하다 the women of Rwanda." Willa Shalit, an accomplished뛰어난 artist and producer, first visited the tiny African Country in 2003 and discovered Rwanda's widows had a unique skill set. “You can have ideas about change. But if women don’t have money in their hands, they have no power.” Shalit thought there was a market for these hand-crafted baskets in the United States that brought her to the doorstep of one of the largest retailers in the country.
It’s underneath this grove작은 숲 of trees that these women first got together to weave baskets after the genocide. Some of their husbands were murdered. Others were the murderers. But 15 years later, they have led the way in economic recovery and reconciliation. In 2005, the year the partnership with Macy's began, 1,400 baskets were sold in the U.S. Last year, they sold 40,000. What I earn helps me to take myself out of poverty. Today I can buy a dress, I can feed my children. What they earn seems minuscule하찮은, 아주 작은 between three and four dollars a day. But it's more than double the national average, making the women less dependent on the $150 million of directed aid the US provided this year.Dave Price, CBS News, Kigali, Rwanda.