{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Jef le Saltimbanque","provider_url":"https:\/\/jef-le-saltimbanque.com\/en\/","author_name":"JJ ANEYOTA alias Jef le Saltimbanque","author_url":"https:\/\/jef-le-saltimbanque.com\/en\/author\/lesaltimbanque\/","title":"Rwanda - Nyakabanda life- Father Bourguet - Jef le Saltimbanque","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"hb1rnap7QI\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jef-le-saltimbanque.com\/en\/2026\/03\/16\/rwanda-nyakabanda-life-father-bourguet\/\">Rwanda &#8211; Nyakabanda life- Father Bourguet<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/jef-le-saltimbanque.com\/en\/2026\/03\/16\/rwanda-nyakabanda-life-father-bourguet\/embed\/#?secret=hb1rnap7QI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Rwanda &#8211; Nyakabanda life- Father Bourguet&#8221; &#8212; Jef le Saltimbanque\" data-secret=\"hb1rnap7QI\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/jef-le-saltimbanque.com\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/jef-le-saltimbanque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/022104_RWANDA.jpg","thumbnail_width":400,"thumbnail_height":300,"description":"It is Sunday. Alphonse warned me that he would not be available during the morning. He would be at Mass, and afterwards he had a few friends to see. So I have the whole morning to myself. I decide to use the time to write a little and to take stock of what I have learned over the past few days. The house where I am staying used to belong to&nbsp;Father Bourguet, a Belgian missionary who arrived in Rwanda in the 1960s. He died almost four years ago now, in December 2000. Quite a character, this priest. He came to settle in Nyakabanda after his break with his bishop had become final. The bishop did not appreciate the priest\u2019s strong social engagement. It risked, he said, leading him away from his spiritual mission. So Father Bourguet settled on the hill of Nyakabanda. That must have been in the mid-1960s. There he founded&nbsp;CARA \u2014 the Centre for Rural and Artisan Development. The aim of the centre was to train young people from the countryside in different trades: carpentry, masonry, sewing, cooking\u2026 At the beginning of the 1970s, a drinking water system was built by an NGO in a nearby village called&nbsp;Gasovu. [&hellip;]"}