Found!

"He's alive! He's alive!" Serasore repeats over and over again as he scoops his lost son, Habimana, into his arms, hugging and kissing him. "All this time we thought he was dead, but here he is."

For more than two years Habimana's family in Cyumba Commune, Rwanda, feared the worst--that the boy had been killed in the fighting during Rwanda's 1994 civil war. When the good news came that hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were returning from camps in the former Zaire, Serasore and his wife, Sigiri, dared to dream Habimana might be among them.

"Word cannot express how I am feeling," Serasore said, holding his precious boy. "I just thank God for bringing him back to us."

Sigiri was so overcome with emotion that she found it difficult to speak. "I feel weak. I cannot believe my eyes," she said as she reached out to touch her lost child.


Reprinted with permission from the Autumn 1997 issue of World Vision Today.