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Truth lights the way from darkness
by Simon Nsabiyeze, Programme Officer, Rwanda. We are currently closing this year’s week-long commemoration from April 7 to April 13 of the 1994 genocide. This year’s theme is ‘Commemorating the...
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Odette Kayirere
Odette Kayirere’s husband was killed in the Rwandan genocide and she was forced to flee with her five children. She was helped by other survivors to rebuild her life and went on to be president of...
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Liberate Mukagihana
Liberate is a counsellor and paralegal with AVEGA East. She does group counselling and one-to-one counselling and now trains other counsellors. Her door is always open – any hour of the day or night. I...
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Liberty Muhoza
Liberty Muhoza was left orphaned by the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. His brother was also killed. With support from AVEGA, Liberty is finishing his education and has also become a community development...
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Edna Wharton, CAFOD supporter
I became a CAFOD volunteer in the 1980s and then our parish representative. I’ve kept records since 1996 of money we’ve raised, and when I look back I’m inspired that we really can do something. We can...
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Blogs from Rwanda: the right kind of support
Girls as well as boys in Rwanda usually wear their hair very short. Presumably it keeps things cool. But it is causing some difficulty for my CAFOD travelling companion Liam (who, as it happens, wears...
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Remembering Rwanda – 20 years on
by Rob Rees, Former Africa Programme Officer I first became involved in Rwanda in July 1994, some two or three months after the start of the horrific events in that landlocked country, the full scale...
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Learning to smile again after the Rwandan genocide
by Debbie Wainwright They say if you worked in Rwanda or in the refugee camps on its borders 20 years ago, you never forget the fear and horror etched on the faces of the survivors. Visiting Rwanda...
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