Global Learning Projects

Visiting the Kigali Genocide Museum had an enormous impact on me. I learned a lot of lessons during our visit there. A big lesson I learned was that the genocide was systemically planned and carried out. As a 90's kid, my understanding of that event was very skewed - in true transparency, I thought it was just violence that broke out - that was the narrative I saw and didn't question it. What I learned at the museum was very much the opposite. It was a campaign that was based on hate, stereotypes, misinformation, and had a complicated history intertwined with colonialism. It made me realize how none of us are that far removed from genocide. Genocide comes when we stop listening to each other, when we stop connecting with one another. That was probably my biggest take away from this trip - we are all capable of such good and such bad - we have to have an awareness of knowing the duality of what we as humans are capable of. Visiting the Kigali Genocide Museum really highlighted why we went on this trip, global learning is so much more than visiting other countries, it's about forming relationships, it's about taking the time to choose connection with each other. We have so much more in common with one another than we realize.