RwandaBuild-A-School

Rwanda

Rwanda is a beautiful country in Eastern Africa.

It has stunning mountains in the west and savannah in the east. Like Ireland it has lots of lakes throughout the country.

Rwanda FlagBlue represents

Happiness and Peace

Yellow represents Economy & mineral wealth

Green represents Prosperity & natural resources

…and the sun represents Unity

Economic SystemThe money in Rwanda is called the

Rwanda Franc

1Rwanda Franc = € 0.001

1Euro equals = 924 Rwanda Francs

The PeopleThere are 12,012,589 people in Rwanda.

(almost 3 times the number of people in Ireland)

Rwanda is 84,420km2 big (only 1/4 the size of Ireland)

Most densely populated country in Africa(5 times density of Ireland)

Average person lives to 55years of age(in Ireland average person lives to 80yrs)

The Genocide

Rwanda is made up of 3 different tribes (or communities) of people: Hutu, Tutsi and Twa

Although they were a minority, the Tutsis were ruling. They controlled most the land and power. In 1994, the Hutu leader was traveling in a plane when it mysteriously crashed. This started one of the bloodiest genocides the world has ever known where the Hutus systematically killed every Tutsi they could find.

Almost 1,000,000 people were killed…in just 100 days100,000 children lost their parents

It’s been exactly 20years since the horrible

genocide

SO…we thought we should do something

REALLY special!

Recently we built these Rwandan

children a nursery school. More than a

100children go there!

Now it’s YOUR chance to build

a Learning Centre for

children the same age as

you! Your money from Ireland

directly building a school in

Rwanda!

Thank YOU!What you give is going to change somebody’s life

forever!