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PARENTAL CARE FOR DESTITUTE CHILDREN |
P.O. BOX 3474
Kigali-Rwanda |
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Background
In April 1994 Rwanda was plunged into a massive massacre that culminated rapidly into a genocide where about one million people fell prey within merely 100 days. Over two million people fled the country into the surrounding nations of Congo, Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda. At the same time an equal estimate of 2,000,000 people returned as old case refugees from these same nations where they had been for over 30 years.
In 1995 over four and a half million Rwandese, who were internally displaced, had to move back to their homes and have since regained a level of normalcy. In 1996 and early 1997, over 1½ million returned from refugee camps in Congo, Burundi and Tanzania. These internal and external movements of people created various social and economic problems that will take long to solve; and so this should not be left to the state alone.
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