This was announced on Sunday in Ruhango District while commemorating the victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and giving decent burial to 124 remains of the genocide victims.
Speaking at the event, the president of survivor association in Amayaga region, Alexis Rusagara said that survivors have different problems including shelters.
“Among problems survivors face include houses which need rehabilitation and others which need to be reconstructed. We should save our relatives from houses that could collapse on them,” he said.
The houses which need urgent rehabilitation were constructed between 1996 and 2004.
In Ntongwe sector alone, 80 houses need rehabilitation as twenty families need new shelters. Also in Kinazi sector, 50 houses need renovation as 25 will be newly constructed.
Speaking at the event, the Minister of Local Governance, Francis Kaboneka said that the government has taken into account the problem of shelters for genocide survivors.
“Shelter problem is being discussed. The government is putting together resources for our relatives to get shelter. This is an exercise that will be done very soon,” he said.
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