Gaile Parkin

Gaile Parkin was born in Zambia and lives in Africa. She spent two years in Rwanda as a VSO volunteer as the new university doing a wide range of work: teaching, mentoring, writing learning materials, working with the campus clinic to counsel students about HIV/AIDS, and doing gender advocacy and empowerment work. Evenings and weekends she counseled women and girls who were survivors. [adapted from Baking Cakes in Kigali (2009)]