![]() ![]() His story is riveting and profoundly moving and the success of the clinic – the Village Health Works – is among its most rewarding aspects. For Deo, a recovery from the trauma of his past has fueled his unrelenting pursuit of his childhood mission to build a village medical clinic in regional Burundi. The hero, Tutsi medical student Deogratias Niyizonkiza (Deo), survives the genocides of 1993, and then homelessness and isolation in New York city. W hat lessons can foreign aid take from post-genocide Burundi? This is not the question that Tracy Kidder's Pulitzer Prize winning novel asks, but within the narrative of Strength in What Remains there are important lessons in development effectiveness. ![]()
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