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Discover Rwanda
Aegis Students
But the perpetrators did not simply kill one million people. They killed one person, then another and another. Day after day, hour after hour, minute by minute. For 100 days, innocent people in Rwanda were murdered. Every day, somewhere, people were being murdered, screaming for mercy but receiving none.

The genocide of 1994 resulted in the complete devastation of Rwanda. It decimated families and destroyed communities. It
divided the country into perpetrators and victims and left raw and complex social and jurisprudential issues. It resulted in
survivors without homes, children without parents, parents without children. The legacy of genocide was utter confusion, a lack of trust in human values and relationships. The loss of hope.

After the killing stops, the consequences of genocide continue. Many survivors widowed or orphaned by the genocide have remained disadvantaged ever since. Many young survivors find themselves heads of households – responsible for sustaining their younger siblings but without the means of paying school fees or buying school materials. Many women widowed during the genocide are unable to make ends meet to pay for basic household expenses, such as water or electricity. Families are forced to live on the street, their livelihoods destroyed.
Fund4Rwanda was created in order to alleviate the suffering of the victims of the Rwandan genocide worst affected by its consequences.
We cannot erase the past, but we can try to build hope for the future.

Anne-MarieAnne-Marie Mukamana, widowed, gang-raped and left HIV positive during the Rwandan genocide was one of the first beneficiaries of Fund4Rwanda.

Aegis Trust helped to provide Anne-Marie with the vaccines she needed to live with HIV/AIDS, and with Aegis Students supporters of Fund4Rwanda were able to contribute to the purchase of a house for her where she could make a new home with her surviving son, Patrick. During the Aegis Students field trip ‘Discover Rwanda 2008’, participants had the opportunity to meet Anne-Marie and volunteered to paint her house.

By supporting Fund4Rwanda you will help widows and orphan survivors meet basic household needs and secure much-needed support for education and training. Your donations will also help support Aegis Rwanda’s genocide education programme, operating from the Kigali Memorial Centre, for which Aegis is responsible.

Fund4Rwanda… making a little go a long way:

  • £4 will supply water for a month
  • £5 will pay for charcoal for a month
  • £9 will pay for a school uniform
  • £60 will install electricity in a home
  

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Fund4Rwanda is a project of the Aegis Trust - UK Registered Charity No: 1082856.

Aegis Trust, established at the UK's Holocaust Centre, worked in partnership with the Kigali City Council to construct the Kigali Memorial Centre in Rwanda - which opened for the 10th Anniversary of the genocide in 2004. Aegis Continues to manage the centre and its projects which includes those described here and on the Kigali Memorial Centre Website.
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