Jen Lemen is a writer and artist living in Silver Spring, Maryland. I read her blog regularly and love the way she writes from the heart about connecting with people, overcoming blocks to creativity and pursuing your dreams. Over the last month she has told the story of an upcoming trip to Rwanda, where she will visit Grace and Lillian, the daughters of her friend Odette. Odette is in the US hoping that her daughters will be able to join her at some point, but unable to go and visit them herself. When Odette was seven, living in a refugee camp in Rwanda, she and her brother Innocent set up a microfinance project keeping chickens and selling the eggs to fund some of their friends through school. Jen and Odette have turned the story into a zine that is written in Rwandan and English and has been illustrated by Jen. You can read from the beginning of the story here, or find out more about the zine here. Take a moment and be inspired by two women acting on the Rwandan saying 'if not you, who? If not now, when?'