Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Passport loss fails to derail Swarthmore Lecture

Esther Mombo delivered the Swarthmore Lecture on 28 May

by Tara Craig 3rd June 2016

This year’s Swarthmore Lecture, Mending broken hearts; rebuilding shattered lives: Quaker peacebuilding in Eastern Africa, was delivered in one voice, rather than two, as planned.

Cécile Nyiramana of Rwanda Yearly Meeting was to be one of the joint lecturers. Despite having her visa granted in good time, she was unable to travel to London because her passport disappeared between the United Kingdom secretariat in South Africa and her home in Kigali, Rwanda. She was devastated, Friends at Yearly Meeting heard.