World Ark Magazine - November/December 2008 - (Page 55) Heifer Spirit Giving Resources, Giving Self ACTRESS DIANE LANE finds healing and hope ON A HEIFER STUDY TOUR TO RWANDA. Photos: Marisia Geraci By Ray White, Heifer International Public Information Director Lane and her daughter spent two weeks on a Heifer study tour to Rwanda. Photo: Sarah Donaghy iane Lane first heard of Heifer International at a party at the Los Angeles home of friends Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, where she mingled with guests, petted a llama and learned how livestock and community development can overcome poverty. A few months ago, Lane started thinking seriously about seeing Heifer’s work for herself and giving her daughter a look at the world beyond the Hollywood Hills. She downloaded Heifer’s study tour forms, filled them out, stuffed them in an envelope and mailed them to Heifer’s Little Rock headquarters. So when she and daughter Eleanor, 15, arrived in Kigali, Rwanda, in August, they came as regular study tour members. Though famous for her starring roles in such movies as The Perfect Storm, Under the Tuscan Sun and Unfaithful, Lane wanted her visit to Rwanda to be a noncelebrity undertaking. On this trip, the Oscar-nominated actress focused on exposing her child to a wider worldview. The trip was both physically and mentally demanding. It included visits to memorials of the 1994 genocide, in which 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and Hutus lost their lives. The tour group traveled around Rwanda in a van, visiting small farms where Heifer is providing cows to improve livelihoods. Lane and her daughter got to witness a passing on the gift ceremony in which Heifer project participants gave 58 calves to their neighbors. Lane said it was emotional and uplifting but that she is still processing everything she saw. “I thought I knew what gratitude was, but it’s almost too much to try to put it into a sentence. I didn’t know the value of a cow. A cow is, well, it’s pretty much me saying the equivalent of my retirement fund.” Lane said she now understands why the government of President Paul Kagame points to the power of passing on the gift, one of Heifer’s 12 Cornerstones for Just and Sustainable Development, in mending relations between Hutus and Tutsis. November/December 2008 | WORLD ARK D www.heifer.org 55 http://www.heifer.org
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