Written by:
T.P. Allen, Former attorney, director of Bridge2Rwanda | The Huffington Post
By the time I arrived, the purported road had dwindled to something less than a goat trail. To say I was off the beaten track in rural Rwanda, some 90 kilometers outside of Kigali, would merely state the obvious. I was going where no sane person would go on four wheels instead of two feet.
Yet it was here, at the end of the road, where I encountered an extraordinary creature: a real live piggy bank that in all its porcine glory captured the essence of grassroots entrepreneurship and development at the base of the socioeconomic pyramid. Here was an animal that represented financial security for a family, which could have made roast suckling pig out of him long before the initial investment paid off. In order to maximize the return, however, this family would have to be patient; in other words, buy and hold.
5 years in the making, Rising from Ashes is the redemption story of Rwandan's first ever national cycling team.
