Interview Carl Wilkens

November 19, 2003

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Interview Carl Wilkens

He headed up the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) in Rwanda and was the only American who chose to stay while the rest evacuated. In describing that day watching the cars and trucks rolling by, he recalls, This sadness just came over me. … If people in Rwanda ever needed help, now was the time. And everybody's leaving. In the weeks that followed, he recounts what he tried to do to help, including enlisting Rwanda's Hutu prime minister to stop a massacre of children in an orphanage. There were times of real hopelessness. I basically had to say to myself, 'There's nothing I can do about that.' I could spend a lot of time in anger about why other people weren't making a difference, weren't doing it, but that wasn't going to help anything. This interview was conducted on Nov. 19, 2003.

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