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WOMEN FOR CENTRE IN KIGALI
WOMEN
A picture story by SIMON WHEELER
OUR Our itinery stated
“OFFICIAL GREETING FROM STAFF AND WOMEN ON THE PROGRAMMES” The “greeting” was wonderful; singing and dancing that is unmistakably African, unrelenting enthusiasm. Such a pleasure to be there.
Nora Russell from the London office appreciates a small child.
A training session from one of the four modules SUSTAINING AN INCOME, HEALTH AND WELLBEING, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY DECISION MAKING SOCIAL NETWORKS AND SAFETY NETS.
24.01.2012
The marquee at the WfWI Centre where women make and sell handcrafts
27.01.2012
NYMATA
GENOCIDE
MEMORIAL
I will not attempt to explain the political and social backround to the genoside in Rwanda. But like all genocides it was carefully planned and in this case it was devastatingly brutal. The objective was the anialation of the Tutsi tribe by the Hutus. Women and children were their primary targets. I’d forgotton how terrible it was. It’s impossible to imagine or understand. On 6th April 1994, President Juvenal Habyarimana and President Cyrien Ntaryamira of Burundi where flying into Kigali airport when their plane was shot down ( probably by Hutu extremists ). They were both killed. Within an hour, at 21.15, roadblocks had been set up throughout Kigali and houses were being searched. Shots were heard. Death lists had been prepared in advance. The killing had begun. The murderers used machetes, clubs, guns and any blunt tool they could find to inflict as much pain on their victims as possible. No Tutsi was exempt. In 100 days, 1,000,000 people were murdered, 10,000 each day, 400 every hour, 7 each minute, The genocidaires had been more successful in their brutal killings than anyone would have dared to believe. Rwanda was dead.
MUSEUM
Roadblocks were a principal tool of population control . Any Tutsi who tried to pass was humiliated, murdered, raped, and dumped by the roadside.
A r i a n e UMUTONI Age: 4 Favorite food: CAKE Enjoyed: SINGING AND DANCING Behavior: A NEAT LITTLE GIRL Cause of death: STABBED IN HER EYES AND HEAD
F i d e l e I NGABIRE Age: 9 Favorite sport: FOOTBALL Favorite food: CHIPS
David MUGIRANEZA
Age: 10
Favorite sport: FOOTBALL
Enjoyed: TV AND THE COMPANY OF OTHER CHILDREN
Enjoyed: MAKING PEOPLE LAUGH
Cause of death: SHOT IN THE HEAD
Dream: BECOMING A DOCTOR Cause of death: TORTURED
Dr Naason, from the institute of Peace Nyamata, Bugesera where around 10,000 church and its surroundings. The door explosives. Women were systematically killing. Babies were thrown against a
and Dialogue, met us outside people were murdered in the behind him was blown open by raped and abused during the brick wall.
Dr Naason is a psychiatrist studying the causes and effects of genecide.
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CIFI
A bicycle“taxi” is cheap and a common way to get around. Most people walk though, and on both sides of the road there is constant traffic.
CIFI
( Commercial Intregated Farming Initiative )
Women of all ages arrive for work, many of them carrying their babies.
25.01.2012 A shop keeper on the way to visit Lauri Pastroni’s “Sister”
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GAHAYA LINKS
Gahaya Links was founded by Joy Ndunguste and Janet Nkubana. The company specializes in high quality handcraft products, based on the simple principle of women’s economic empowerment through fair trade. The company is in partnership with WfW- Rwanda.
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MARKETS A glimpse of a market in Kigali and one or two others on route to Kayonza.
28.01.12
CLEAN-UP DAY AND VILLAGE MEETING
29.01.2012 : 09hrs
CHURCH
WITH
ASSUMPTA
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BAKERY IN THE MUHANGA DISTRICT The bakery in under construction and already supplies over half of the villagers needs.
the bread is sold at the evening village market
30.01.12
HOME COOKING About to prepare food for a wedding.
and lunch with a friend of Assumpta’s, her son and her 94 year old mother.
30.01.12
HEAVEN 40 trainee cooks arrive at Heaven Restauant in Kigali for a cookery class. Jesse Ziff Cool, a chef and restauranter from California, helped out in the kitchen. The team were full of life and ready to learn. The result...
a truley delicious lunch.
Jesse and Assumpta join in the group picture after lunch.