Editor,

As we welcome 2011, I would like to wish you all peace, health and happiness, and a successful New Year.
 My passion and commitment to Rwanda and her people grows by the day, month and year.  It has been, and will continue to be, my honor and pleasure to learn more about your wonderful country and amazing people.

Thanks to wonders of technology, I have made many new friends in Rwanda who teach me so much, and for that, I will be, forever ,grateful. 

My thoughts and dreams are filled with the beauty of the hills, the smiling faces and the laughter of the children that I loved so much when I visited in 2009. 

If only the rest of the world could see Rwanda through my eyes and heart!  I grow more anxious by the day as my return to Rwanda approaches at the end of March 2011!  I am so excited to reconnect with friends I made on my last trip and look forward to meeting the many new friends I’ve come to know in the last couple of years! 

I will be, forever ,diligent in telling the people around me about the wonder that is Rwanda....my future home!
Keeping you all close to my heart,

Marie Collins
Canada