You asked me if I had met any Canadians who were doing work there. In fact, one of the guys I met was actually with HOPEthiopia but was in Rwanda. He found it very, very difficult partly because of the trust issue. It takes a long time, and that's the problem with sending outsiders into the situation. If they don't know you or where you came from or what you're doing there, they're not going to open up to you.
I was lucky in that sense that I had been there in 2006 and 2007 teaching, so I had made a lot of contacts and I was able to get people to open up to me because they trusted me. But that takes a long time, especially if you are in a warlike situation.
I fully support Canada's role in partnering with people who are working on these kinds of things. A lot of the Rwandans asked me if there was a way they could do a stage in a rehabilitation centre here in Canada, for example. I have no idea. Those are things that I really don't know. Other than writing to the people and asking, I don't know.
They really are hungry for information. It's not that they need to learn about what people are going through. They know that because they are all going through it. They need to learn different ways of dealing with it. They have a lot of creative ideas for dealing with it; they just need the resources. I don't think it takes a lot. We're not talking millions and millions of dollars. I don't think it takes a lot of money to provide things like materials to paint or things to do sculpture or any other kinds of creative materials.