In her fourth year,/Seya made plans to go to the UK/for her graduate work.
She knew that she had to narrow down her area of specialty/in the field of conflict resolution.
She spent hours in the library/reading books,/as well as collecting information/from the websites of international organizations and NGOs.
In three months,/she had absorbed so much information/that she could not decide what to specialize in.
Then all of a sudden,/the following sentence jumped out at her:/“Conflict areas are now faced with the problem/of how to reintegrate ex-soldiers and child soldiers into society.”
This is it,/Seya thought.
In 1999,/Seya started her graduate work in the UK. While she was a graduate student,/she was asked by a Japanese NGO/to work in Rwanda. Part of her mission/was to open their office in Kigali,/the capital of Rwanda,/and to initiate a project/to provide job training for women/who had lost their husbands in conflicts. She selected 10 trainees,/most of whom were single mothers in their 20s and 30s,/and taught them sewing and dressmaking skills/so that they could support themselves.
In 1999,/Seya started her graduate work in the UK. While she was a graduate student,/she was asked by a Japanese NGO/to work in Rwanda. Part of her mission/was to open their office in Kigali,/the capital of Rwanda,/and to initiate a project/to provide job training for women/who had lost their husbands in conflicts. She selected 10 trainees,/most of whom were single mothers in their 20s and 30s,/and taught them sewing and dressmaking skills/so that they could support themselves.