‘Umuganda’ is the community service work Rwandans do on the last Saturday of every month. I do this community service at the school I work at with other teachers and students. This week when I showed up for umuganda, there were no other teachers around, so I decided to do my community service with something that was bothering me – litter! Our school has several fields where a Catholic nun, Sr. Yevgeny (sp?), grows vegetables. Interspersed in these fields are discarded bits of plastic, water bottles, surgical masks, shards of pottery and the like, so I went to clean them up. The Rwandans looked at me like I was crazy, but I was satisfied in that a student and I collected two bags of mostly single-use plastics. (Now the sad ending to this good deed is that these bags and their contents will probably be burned.)