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The Man Who Went From Being Homeless to Saving a Nation
In 1993 medical student Deogratias Niyizonkiza was running for his life. A genocidal civil war had broken out in Burundi that quickly took tens of thousands of lives.
Deo, as he is known, found a way out of the country and to New York City, arriving nearly penniless and knowing no one nor a word of English.
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He slept in Central Park and delivered groceries to the homes of affluent New Yorkers for nothing but the occasional tip. “I would try to haggle with the station agents for subway tokens,” he says, “even though I knew no one could understand a word I was saying.”
Life in New York was hard, but it provided Deo with a vision for his future.
“I was struck by the beauty of Central Park, even though I was stuck sleeping there: ‘Just look at the benches, how nice they are!’ It took seeing life here for me to craft my vision of what I wanted to create back home.”
New York also bestowed upon him an act of such astounding gen