Barefoot Artists recently purchased 100 goats for the Rugerero Survivors Village in Gisenyi, Rwanda, writes artist Lily Yeh in the Barefoot newsletter. "100 families will care for the goats and benefit from their milk," says Yeh. Other news: Barefoot volunteers in Gisenyi have been strengthening a sunflower-seed-oil production initiative, helping set up a small business for trainees in their sewing program, training local potters to recycle agricultural waste to fire their pottery, helping area youth access secondary education and investigating strategies for improving sanitation in the village. Jean Bosco Musana, Barefoot's host in Rwanda, will visit the U.S. in April to build more partnerships, and three Rwandan medical students are at Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University studying community medicine. Twelve Jefferson students go to Rwanda next summer to work with their new Rwandan colleagues in Butare. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham