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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 days
100,000 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 sc
hool. More th
an a
100children go there!
Now it’s Y
OUR chance to build
a Learning Centre for
children the sa
me age as
you! Your m
oney from Ire
land
directly building a sc
hool in
Rwanda!