The Passage Trust Opens a New Corridor as the Summer's Movers Keep Arriving

NOVA KIGALI RECEIVING TOWN — The Aliyu family arrived on a Monday, which is to say on an ordinary day, into a town that has added a whole district since spring. Fatima Aliyu carried a bag and a younger brother; their father carried the papers. They had walked, ridden, and waited their way up one of the Passage Trust's northern corridors, and this week the Trust opened another to carry the people still behind them. The receiving town — three years ago a way station, now a small city of new-poured streets — has learned to grow the way coral grows, a district at a time, always a season behind the need. "We do not build for the town we have," an intake officer said, keying the Aliyus into a ledger that groaned under the summer's volume. "We build for the one arriving." The family got a room, a ration card, a school placement for the brother. The Trust got three more names in a book that has not stopped filling since June. Outside, the graders were already cutting the next district's streets into the dust.