Watching Over Rwandans

Chaos roils among a large group of high-achieving Rwandan students at Southwestern Michigan College. Their home government instigates an FBI search of the students' apartments on a trumped-up suspicion of drug running. No more money arrives from home, and the students face deportation if they cannot continue their studies. What is happening? First, appalling transatlantic conversations with relatives detail lawlessness, murder, and bodies everywhere, and then the phones go dead. Word-of-mouth from neighbors filters through Belgium, telling the students that their families have been the victims of breakneck machete slaughter. Deportation would mean sure death at the hands of fanatical mobs. Frantic, with apparently no one to turn to, some flee for asylum to Canada. However, after a convocation with those determined to stay, college administrator Ilene Sheffer is moved to action and devises an ingenious way to help them earn college money and stay legally in southern Michigan. In the pages of Watching Over Rwandans, you will meet Gaetan, Marie-Rose, Francois, Assumpta, Gervais, Jovin, and Etienne, and read their stories of courage, love, and compassion. They tell of indiscriminate death and chance survivals. You will also learn about Ilene, the woman who made it possible for them to avoid deportation because she decided to do the right thing.--Back cover.

Author: Ilene Sheffer

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Oct 23, 2017

Number of Pages: 118 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1978246382

ISBN-13: 9781978246386