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The First Lady is also a patron of the Rotary Club Virunga, based in Kigali, which established the first public library in Rwanda in 2012. [3] Mrs. Kagame is also a member of the board of directors for several organizations, including the Global Coalition of Women against HIV/AIDS and the Friends of the Global Fund Africa. [3]
Veneranda Nzambazamariya (August 8, 1957 – January 30, 2000) was a Rwandan peace advocate, women’s rights leader, and humanitarian. She played a significant role in post-genocide Rwanda by uniting women across ethnic and social divides to support reconciliation and community rebuilding.
Beatrice Cyiza is a Rwandan politician who currently serves as Director General of Environment and Climate Change at the Ministry of Environment in Rwanda. [1] Jeanette Kagame [2] [3] Louise Mushikiwabo [4] Rosemary Museminali [5]
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Rwandan This category exists only as a container for other categories of Rwandan women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
The culture of Rwanda is varied. Unlike many other countries in Africa, Rwanda has been a unified state since precolonial times, populated by the Banyarwanda people who share a single language and cultural heritage. [1] Eleven regular national holidays are observed throughout the year, with others occasionally inserted by the government. [2]
Agathe Uwilingiyimana was born 23 May 1953 in the village of Nyaruhengeri in the southern Rwandan province Butare, [2] 140 kilometres (87 mi) southeast of the Rwandan capital Kigali. She moved with her farming parents [ 3 ] to the Belgian Congo to find work, but they moved back to Butare in 1957. [ 2 ]
They hired women who had been widowed during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. [5] She began selling these baskets at flea markets and began exporting them to Uganda , Kenya , Tanzania , and the United States. [ 6 ]
Mignone Alice Kabera is a Rwandan woman who is one of self assigning herself and for the first time in Rwanda a title of Apostle women. She is the Founder and leader of Women foundation Ministries and Noble Family Church but WFM is an association that focuses on developing Rwandan women in the areas of spirituality and the issues they face in their daily lives, including in the home, at work ...