We wanted to come to Rwanda to see the gorillas, but it was hard to find any information about travelling to this African country. We saw a television show about Franciscans in Rwanda and found an article about fra Ivica on the Internet. That’s how we met ‘Our Man in Africa’, fra Ivica Perić. To the first email we sent to him asking for assistance in...

The arrival of stone-laden trucks and the excavation of the foundation by more than 50 workers marked the beginning of the construction of the secondary school in Kivumu, Rwanda. With it – just four months after the publishing of the book entitled ‘Our Man in Africa’ (Croatian: ‘Naš čo’ek u Africi’) written by the couple, Željko Garmaz and...

To get biogas we use the manure from our cows, but also the “waste” from the twelve toilets we have built in the school compound. All that is linked to a big 35-cubic-metre cistern buried in the ground, so all waste is collected there and turned into gas. The gas which is produced in this manner is then transferred to our school kitchen...

Two journalists, Maja Sajler Garmaz and Željko Garmaz, who are married to each other, wrote a book entitled “Our Man in Africa” (“Naš čo’ek u Africi”) after their trip to Africa. Maja and Željko went to Africa for their honeymoon. They returned full of impressions and with a firm decision to help the local people. The construction of the...

More than a year ago, when my dear friends, Željko Garmaz and Maja Sajler Garmaz, contacted me announcing that they were coming to Rwanda to write a book about me and the missionary work of Croatian priests in East Africa, I replied like I always do when people ask me about such stuff: “You just come!” I hadn’t given the book any thought...