Traveling between Pindura, a town deep in the Republic of Rwanda’s Nyungwe Primary Forest, and Bweyeye, another village in the western part of the country, usually involved a multi-hour trip along steep hillsides on a winding dirt road.
The Gasyogogo bridge opening came the same week that Bridges to Prosperity launched its national partnership to connect 1.1 million Rwandans by building 355 bridges.
Engineers and sustainability experts are testing some high-tech approaches to bring improved water and air quality to millions of people in remote parts of Africa and, eventually, elsewhere in the developing world.
