I’m Not Leaving – Book
1. For a suggested donation of $16 we will send you 1 book
2. For a suggested donation of $40 we will send you 3 books
3. For a suggested donation of $70 we will send you 6 books
4. If you would like to use the book to raise funds to bring Carl Wilkens to speak in your area, email Mindy for further details
(Outside the USA please check with Mindy for shipping cost: imnotleavingrwanda@gmail.com)
After clicking the "Donate" button to the right you will see among other things a box marked "purpose". Just write "books" there.
We send the books through the postal service so be sure and include your mailing address.
Make a donation and receive a copy of Emily Wilkens book AFRICAN RICE HEART.
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Donate to receive AFRICAN RICE HEART
1. Suggested donation $13 and receive one copy
2. Suggested donation $30 and receive three copies
FOR BOTH
I'M NOT LEAVING and
AFRICAN RICE HEART
donate $25.
(Make sure you note in the message box after pushing the donate button just what you want:)
For questions contact Mindy at imnotleavingrwanda@gmail.com
We have not gone with a publisher at this point so we need your help in getting the book out and at the same time the book is serving as a fundraiser for World Outside My Shoes.
You can make your donation by check payable to World Outside My Shoes and mail it to: 5523 E. Katie Lane, Spokane Wa, 99223 or you can click on the "Donate" button higher up on the right of this page. Among other things you will see a box marked "purpose". Just write " books" there.
We send out the books mostly through the postal service so be sure and include your mailing address.
We are serious about the "suggested" donation part. If you don't have $16, make a donation of what you can and we will send you a book. Like I said, we want to get the word out.
For questions contact Mindy at imnotleavingrwanda@gmail.com
Thanks so much for your support!
Carl and Teresa
About the book:
Why did Carl Wilkens decide to remain in Rwanda in 1994, with a
genocide swirling around him? How did he and his wife Teresa maintain
communication during the one-hundred days of terror when Tutsis were
being hounded to death by Hutu militia extremists? How does the only
American who chose to stay—in order to protect two Tutsi household
workers–look back on that fearful time?
Working from tapes made for his family, which chronicle daily
events from the sublime to the horrific, Carl reconstructs in fascinating
detail both personal and political events triggered by the April 6
plane crash assassination of the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi.
He takes us through the poignant good-bye to his family, as they join the mass exodus of expatriates leaving this dangerous situation. He affirms his presence in the neighborhood he has known for four years, by standing barefoot in the middle of the dusty road, waving farewell.
— Helen Kweskin,
INTRODUCTION -excerpt
With a tragedy of such epic proportions as the Rwandan genocide of 1994, with a complete shredding of a whole society, how could we ever hope to understand — even a bit — why it happened, how it happened, how it could have been prevented, and how it could have been stopped? I think our best hope of learning and gaining understanding begins in collecting as many witness, victim, and perpetrator accounts as possible. Each person sharing what they saw, what they experienced. This book is an attempt to give the world a look at various people living in Kigali during this extraordinarily brutal and violent time, a look through the eyes of a young American who was living there with his wife and small children–a look through my eyes.
While the stories written here happened during the genocide, this book is not really about genocide. It is more about the choices people made, actions people took, courage people showed, and sacrifices people gave in the face of genocide…
— Carl Wilkens
