Stories from Africa: God Intervention #1

For the last 3 weeks I've been in the DRC and Ethiopia on a "technical assistance" offering trip for FH. I flew Ethiopian Airlines - 9h from DC to Rome, refuel, and 6h to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Makes for a long day/night. Once I arrived in Addis, my flight to Kigali, Rwanda was delayed 5 hours. So I contacted the gal coordinating the international logistics part of my trip, to let her know we needed a Plan B, since it would be dark once I reached the Rwanda/DRC border and thus likely closed. (The original plan was to take a 5h taxi ride from Kigali to Cyangugu, cross the border to DRC Bukavu, and then catch an AirServ flight from Bukavu to Kalemie the following day). The “God thing” is that Plan B ended up being much better. Once in Kigali, I met up with Dan, a regional FH staff member, who speaks French and we traveled by taxi 3h to Gisenye, found a hotel, and first thing the next morning crossed the border into DRC Goma, and got to the airport just in time to catch the AirServ flight to Kalemie. And once in Kalemie we found out the Bukavu -> Kalemie flight (my original one) had been canceled. Good thing for Plan B! More soon...