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My Life: a gorilla porter’s story

Category: Art of Conservation (AoC), MGVP, art | Date: Nov 18 2008 | By: Julie

Meet Innocent HAKIZIMANA, a former AoC student and a porter for park staff and tourists visiting the mountain gorillas, as he tells his story during our Lesson Where Art Tells A Story.
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My Life by Innocent HAKIZIMANA.
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Without fail, the resiliency of people who have been through the most oppressive of situations and nature which continually receives relentless plundering, never ceases to amaze me. But why do we push things to such extremes in the first place?

Fellow AoC classmates illustrate Innocent HAKIZIMANA’s story - a story all too familiar to each of these adults who’ve survived years of war.
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Illustration 1.

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Illustration 2.

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Illustration 3.

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Illustration 4.

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Illustration 5.

For stories from children living in gorilla country, please click here.

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