Helped by a model of healing dating back to the Holocaust, Agahozo Shalom Youth Village is helping a second generation of those affected
Agahozo Shalom Youth Village was set up in 2008 by the late, SA-born lawyer Anne Heyman, who had worked in the USRuhumuriza Vincent de Paul at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwamagana, Eastern Province of Rwanda. Picture: REUTERS/JEAN BIZIMANAde Paul Ruhumuriza was born in Rwanda just a few months before genocide consigned his father to an unknown grave and traumatised his mother so badly she still screams and shakes at any mention of that time.
Seven years ago, Ruhumuriza’s life was on course to become another small tragedy in a nation where every family is touched by grief. He and his mother lived in poverty. His father’s death in the genocide was a mystery — the only time he ever tried to ask about it, his mother had a breakdown. Rwanda’s genocide, sparked by the assassination of the president, lasted about 100 days and stopped after rebels fought their way to the capital, led by Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s current ruler.
She spent months hidden by a neighbour, heavily pregnant, terrified and filled with grief for her murdered husband. She keeps his picture on her phone but still cannot discuss his death.
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