Straight from Twitter

I don't usually do this. But I felt this one had to reach as many people as possible, so I'm gonna copy and paste a few of my tweets about a book I read. For better understanding you gotta read from the bottom up


You can check out www.villagehealthworks.org if you wanna know more about the clinic


Hopefully doing that will allow people to learn from past mistakes. Especially looking at what is going on there these days...


Sidenote: it's one thing to kinda know the facts about the genocide in Rwanda/Burundi. But it's better to try look at the causes


The clinic was built by a Tutsi in a village mostly inhabited by Hutus


He wants to do this so bad that he drops out of med school to focus on building his clinic in his village in Burundi



By then, things have calmed down back home and he visits a couple times. Until he decides that he really wants to build a clinic


From there he gets into dartmouth medical school (from homeless to dartmouth med school... Do you receive it today!)


So after Columbia he manages to meet dr Paul Farmer (wikipedia him) and finds a job at partners in health


For the record, I'm not a big fan of the USA but one thing is for sure the 'American Dream' is a very REAL thing


The undergrad is Columbia. So from cowherding, to med school student, to refugee, to delivering groceries, to Columbia university


And eventually help him enroll in a Esol program. From the esol program he gets into undergrad



To be more precise, I think his home is central park. So anyway he eventually runs into a couple good samaritans who take care of him



He eventually lands a job delivering groceries. But this job pays him so little that he's homeless for a looooong time


Lands in the us with $200 in his pockets, not knowing how to speak English still dazed from the war.



He somehow manages to find himself on a flight to the US with a visa and everything.


So the war breaks out and he has to spend his time fleeing from left to right because he's a Tutsi



Before the war broke out he was a med school student in Burundi. His dad was a cow herder and farmer...



Now. Deo barely escapes from the genocide in Burundi. And when I say barely, I mean barely.


Before I continue, I want to say that for a portion of my life I want to do stuff like what Paul farmer and Deo are doing. So help me God



"Strength in what remains" by Tracy Kidder is a book about Deo a guy from Burundi