Thank you to Bryan Farris for writing about Akilah on NextBillion! Read the full interview.
NextBillion.net: What is interesting to me is that you don’t just provide a crash course training in hospitality skills. Instead you provide a more tailored learning experience that focuses on the whole person. Can you speak to that?
Elizabeth Dearborn Davis: The reality in Rwanda that you’re dealing with is a seriously traumatized population. A lot of these girls just didn’t have the confidence to stand up in front of a class of people and speak, let alone run a business. Their experience at Akilah changes that and we have watched this group of students undergo a profound transformation just in the first semester.
