Nalini asked me if I had ever been to Cards from Africa...
to see how they make the cards... No, I hadn't so off we went!
This little building houses 70 employees!
And Everything that is made here is from Scratch!
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| These containers held the recyled paper... it looked just like wet glue... |
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| This lady would shake out all the water and then "plaster" each sheet on big plates of glass! |
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| Like these... There were several all around the room. |
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| She fastened it just with the wetness of the paper to the glass. |
This girl was very sweet...and a diligent worker.
or it is dyed one of these cool colors!
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| Looks like construction paper at school, huh? But it is a little bit heavier than that. |
They even can texture it!
Some beauty outside.
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| These are large containers of dyes that they use to tint the paper. |
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| At every table there were several girls and guys designing cards with pictures and making designs. |
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| Here are several cards layed out for the glue to dry. |
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| Here's a close up of these animals! Each color is a tiny piece of paper. |
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| Examples of the monkeys. |
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| This is what the floor looked like! |
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| On the back of each card it explains how they are made and the person who designed the card signs their name. |
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| These folks were making giraffe and hot air balloon cards. |
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| These were cool argyle patterned birthday cards. |
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| These girls were very proud of their work... |
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| These were little bitty pieces of confetti on a birthday card. |
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| Here's a close up of the hot air balloon.... "Heard you were moving" card! |
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| This was the BIG room where many were working and designing! |
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| And this is one of the racks with many of the cards for sale. |
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| This was a new car design for a guy's birthday. See all the little grey bumpers on the left? |
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| This is the store room where all the extras are waiting to be sold to local stores or shipped overseas! Be on the lookout for these cards to be in your hands soon! Later that same day.... the First Rwandan Orchestra had its first evening concert at CCR, our church. |
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| We got there a little early. |
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| Kids all in place.... people still pouring in. |
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| In the center of this picture is Jung.... our Korean neighbor who plays the flute. Jung was one of the kids I was tutoring last year.. but he's doing great on his own now. |
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| Jung surrounded by girls with some guys not too far away. |
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| Seats are almost full. |
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| The first piece has just ended and you can see the seats are all full.... |
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| from any angle. There must have been about 500 present. Great encouragment for the students... to see so much support for the arts! They played a nice variety of music and it was all very well done! They have started quite a stir around Kigali and many kids are talking about what instruments they would like to play. The concert ended right at 8 and we slipped out a side door in time to get to the airport... |
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| ...where we met Mama Arlene as she was waiting for the 18 CMU students and 2 teachers coming in from Pittsburgh, PA from the first CMU campus. They were coming to do a mission trip to Urukundo Children's Home! We went to welcome them, too. |
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| All these folks and only 1 piece of lost luggage....Mama looked so happy to have them. |
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| This is Mama Arlene and Prof. Bob Reid from CMU. He takes students on several mission trips throughout the year to a different place most everytime! This year they are coming to Kigali or Gitarama to tear out and rebuild the basketball court for the Urukundo Children's Home. It will be such a wonderful new addition and all the kids will love it. And of course, while they are there they will fall in love with the kids. This was a FULL day----rich with creativity, talent and youth on a mission. love, margie |
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