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Oct 8, 2004

"My only regret of a fabulous life was that I didn’t have any children, but now I am blessed with over 100!" --Rosamond Carr, founder of an orphanage

Land of Thousand Hills

In 1949, when Rosamond Carr first arrived in Africa, she had no idea that she would spend the rest of her life there. Back then, she was just a young fashion illustrator from New York City, who packed four cotton dresses and a lifetime supply of cold cream to accompany her husband on a trip to Congo. As she journeyed to find herself, Rosamond experienced everything from near-bankruptcy to tribal warfare to an ill-fated love affair. Following 1994's Hutu-Tutsi genocide, Carr turned her plantation into a shelter for lost and orphaned children -- work she continues to this day, at the age of ninety-one.