Rwanda is a beautiful land of a thousand hills. The landscape is lush, vibrant, green as far as the eye can see. The people are friendly, smiling, happy - or so it appears on the face of it.
The scars of the 1994 genocide that took the lives of one million Rwandans are still apparent - literally, in the case of many survivors, who bear machete wounds slashed lividly on heads, arms, legs.
The perpetrators are equally visible, dressed in pink, as they carry out community service.
But not all products of the genocide are immediately clear. There is a hidden generation: some 20,000 children born to women raped during that period.
Jonathan Torgovnik, 39, an Israeli-born photojournalist based in New York, has travelled to Rwanda several times since an assignment with Newsweek took him there to find these women and their children.
Last year, he set up a charity, Foundation Rwanda, with the former creative director of the Jewish social venture Reboot, Jules Shell.
Torgovnik's haunting portraits of the women and their children have been published in the Telegraph magazine and Stern since appearing in Newsweek, where he is a staff photographer. Joseline Ingabire With Her Daughter Leah Batamuliza was awarded the National Portrait Gallery Photographic Prize last year.
Torgovnik began his career as a combat photographer for the Israeli Army. "The army was my real school of photography," he says. "It was very unorganised. They just told me to go out there and shoot, but instead of a gun, I had a camera."
He is now fighting on a different front - to try to secure a future for the Rwandan "children of war" by helping finance their education.
"We have an outreach programme to identify the beneficiaries because they do not seek help and they're ashamed of what happened to them. So we send social workers to the villages to try to find the women.
"Only when they agree to the project do I come to interview and photograph them with their children."
Foundation Rwanda (foundation rwanda.org) will provide scholarships for the children once they graduate from government-funded primary school.
"We hope to begin with 500 scholarships in January 2009, which will cover board as well for the children - necessary for those who live miles from school and have difficult lives at home.
"Many mothers have complex relationships with the children; love is difficult when they are a constant reminder of the militia that raped them. As none have been told of the circumstance of their birth, it makes the project even more sensitive."