Rosamund Carr(1912-2006)
Rosamund Carr (nee Halsey) was born in South Orange, New Jersey in
1912. She married the explorer & film maker Kenneth Carr in 1942. They
went to Belgian Congo in 1949 and after their divorce Rosamund settled
in Mugongo, Rwanda to run a Plantation, growing flowers. In 1967 she
first met Dian Fossey who became her close friend & confidant. In 1994 she
was evacuated from Mugongo by Belgian Marines but returned a few days
after the Genocide ended. She set up the Imbabazi Orphanage on the 17th
December 1994. Since 1997, for security reasons, both Rosamund and the
Imbabazi Orphanage relocated to Gisyeni. At the age of 92, she still
looks after the day to day running of the Imbabazi Orphanage which
looks after over 100 children. In December 2005 She returned to her
home at Mugongo and the children of the Orphanage have also moved to a
new building there. A documentary about her, "A Mother's Love: Rosamond
Carr & a Lifetime in Rwanda" made by Standfast Productions Ltd.,
Directed by Eamonn Gearon and Photographed by Noel Donnellon is currently in
production as of June 2005.