{Vianney Nzabamwita, 86, survived the 1994 Genocide perpetrated against Tutsi. Nzabamwita says that he is faced with various problems including living in an old house that is i The complexity of his life hurdles is worsened by the fact that his children are wandering on streets with no access to education.}
Vianney Nzabamwita resides in Ngorongari village, Kibinja cell, Busasamana sector of Nyanza district. He says that he has started experiencing a bitter life when his wife and 11 children were killed in the genocide. After genocide he married another wife with whom they got three children who have now become street children.
“I am experiencing hard life despite being in my old age without the strength to do anything. I don’t know where my three children are since they don’t study and have become street children. Moreover, the house built for me has fallen apart three times since it was badly built” he said.
Nzabamwita’s wife, Costasie Mukarutabana says that she tries to exploit the small land they own but remains unproductive since she can’t afford farmyard manure and they have no cow. Mukarutabana said she has to do hard labor to buy soap or salt.
She attributes the absence of their three children who preferred street life to lack of food at home and the poor house which would be destroyed whenever the wind blows.
During community work held on Saturday March 262016 Genocide Survivors Students Association (AERG) from Universite des Laïques Adventistes de Kigali(UNILAK) collaborated with local leaders and the police to renovate Vianney Nzabamwita’s old house, built toilet and assigned masons that would build the house until it was completed.
Neighbors of Nzabamwita who participated in the community work to renovate the old house told IGIHE that providing a cow would ease his life since it can produce farmyard manure to improve agriculture.
The executive secretary of Busasamana sector, Brigitte Mukantaganzwa said that after realizing poor conditions of Nzabamwita’s life, they have committed to support Nzabamwita to get improved livelihoods.
“This old man is one among beneficiaries of VUP. We need to stay close to him for assistance on how to use better VUP support to leave exclusivity ,” she said.
Mukantaganzwa added that they are going to follow up the case of his children who went on streets to solve the matter.
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