Pictured: The team in front of the Great Lakes Power Office We left Kigali and traveled four hours travel along the National Route 1 and 7 before arriving at the unclassified red dirt road leading to Banda. Banda is located in the Rangiro Sector, Nyamasheke District in the Western Province of Rwanda. The two hours along rutted red dirt road, muddied from recent rains and with debris from intermittent landslides is only passable by 4x4, ours a deep green Toyota pickup operated by our professional driver. Banda represents the most remote, poorest and demanding locations in Rwanda. Children walk many kilometers up and down steep hills to attend school, fetch water and firewood or work in the fields. Adults, young and old work, on small agriculture plots, carry their produce along the same steep hills either pushing them on bicycles or carrying them on their backs and heads. The village of Banda has limited or no infrastructure, no running water, sanitation, hospitals an...