7/5/2023 0 Comments The strength in what remains![]() ![]() Ultimately Kidder admits that he cannot follow Deo emotionally into the "place beyond horror" to which Deo returns as he confronts his past, and in this sense we are at least partly relieved of that journey.ĭeo has harboured a childhood ambition, and this is what saves him. ![]() Kidder's attempts to render it accessible to the reader make for difficult, though compelling, reading. His recovery is a long and wrenching process. Eventually he gains entry to pre-medical studies at Columbia University and medical studies at Duke. ![]() Though haunted by nightmares and sleeping rough in New York City, Deo meets a number of kind strangers who give him shelter, kindness, and access to what he says will heal him most – books. His story is riveting and profoundly moving and the success of the clinic – the Village Health Works – is among its most rewarding aspects. For Deo, a recovery from the trauma of his past has fueled his unrelenting pursuit of his childhood mission to build a village medical clinic in regional Burundi. The hero, Tutsi medical student Deogratias Niyizonkiza (Deo), survives the genocides of 1993, and then homelessness and isolation in New York city. ![]() W hat lessons can foreign aid take from post-genocide Burundi? This is not the question that Tracy Kidder's Pulitzer Prize winning novel asks, but within the narrative of Strength in What Remains there are important lessons in development effectiveness. ![]()
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