Gasabo’s vice mayor in charge of economy and development Jean-Claude Munara has encouraged residents to assist orphans who are independently surviving on their own.
He made the remarks while officially launching 12 houses constructed by Rwanda’s Red-Cross to orphans of its former employees killed during the genocide.
The plan is to construct 30 houses to shelter over 25 orphans situated in Bumbogo sector. The Red-Cross team donated 23 piglets to assist the beneficiaries in generating income.
Red-Cross secretary general Appolonaire Karamaga emphasized that empowering orphans economically would drastically improve their welfare. He also urged well-off people to join in the cause of alleviating poverty as well as enhancing the economy.
Prior to Bumbogo visit, the delegation launched a monument containing names of Red-Cross staff killed and children during the 1994 war.
“This should be a symbol to remind us the holocaust that happened to our country in order to avoid a repeat of the same,” Karamagi remarked adding that, “even foreigners visiting our institution will be shown the monument so that they fully understand the tragedy we faced because some don’t have the time to visit genocide memorial sites and might be mislead by genocide deniers.”
The gravestones are also in line with National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide (CNLG) campaign to encourage institutions to create monuments for their employees killed in the genocide war.
CNLG executive secretary Jean-de-Dieu Mucyo has on several occasions emphasized that with the truth (monuments) laid in several institutions compounds, the gesture would restrict the spread of genocide ideology.
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