Join Alongside Hope (formerly PWRDF) staff and friends for a time of prayer and reflection for the partners, volunteers and staff of PWRDF (name changing to Alongside Hope), monthly on the second Thursday at 2:00 pm (Atlantic), followed by a virtual coffee time.
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On October 9, Alongside Hope will be marking World Food Day and Thanks Giving. We will be welcoming Pacifique “Paci” Irankunda, Model Farmer with Village Health Works, as our reflector.
Pacifique “Paci” Irankunda was born in Kigutu, Burundi. As a teenager he volunteered with Village Health Works, an organization established by his brother, Deogratias “Deo" Niyizonkiza. Pacifique came to America at the age of nineteen as a scholarship student at Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts. He graduated from Williams College with a degree in psychology and political science. Returning to Burundi after being away for ten years, he was inspired by the transformation Village Health Works had brought about in Kigutu. He became a model farmer there and this year, part of the Magara Meza project supported by Alongside Hope through its Resilience Fund. Pacifique is also an author. His first published work, “Playing at Violence,” appeared in The American Scholar and won a Pushcart Prize. He was awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2017 and in 2022 published his first book, The Tears of a Man Flow Inward – Growing up in the Civil War in Burundi. Pacifique now divides his time between Brooklyn, New York and Kigutu, Burundi. To learn more about Pacifique and his writing, go to: https://www.pacifiqueirankunda.com/