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.