Rwanda:

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Rwanda

• Room For Improvement

One world, one love, its our destiny Presentatio
n by Alexis Nyandwi University of
Saskatchewan Arts 104, 530 700
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Presentation Outline

• Contents
• What is Rwanda?
• Current education conditions of Rwanda
• Focus problems examples of what is happening
• Potential solutions, (SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOME)
• Introduction of Room For Improvement

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I believe it is the Garden of Eden, Henry
Morton Stanley
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The Country of Perpetual Spring

• Predominantly grassy uplands and hills
• Average daytime temperature of 77F (25C).
• Two rainy season is from February to May, and
  the shorter one is from October to December
• Altitudes above sea level from a low of 3,960
  feet (1,207 m) to the volcanoes, Mt. Karisimbi at
  14,786 feet (4,507 m)

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Rwanda Land of a Thousand Hills

• Attained independence on July 1, 1962
• Capital City Kigali
• 12 districts with 92 municipals
• Land use 47 Cropland 22,
• Forest 18, Pasture, 13 other
• Kinyarwanda, English, French, Swahili
• President H.E. Paul Kagame

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• Located 120km South of Equator
• Part of the Great lake regions of Africa
• Land area 26,340 square km
• (4 of Saskatchewan)

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Virunga Mountains in the Volcano National Park
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Mt. Karisimbi rising through the mist at 14,786
feet (4,507 m)
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The volcanoes harbor the endangered mountain
gorillas
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And a variety of other wildlife
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Some of you may even have watched Gorillas in the
midst or more recently King Kong.
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Rwanda, a country of culture
A country that loved to dance
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and smile.
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CAME TO A SUDDEN STOP!!
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Year 1994

• Rwanda Genocide

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The aftermath was unbearable..
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Children were left in the dark

• At the end of the genocide, there was an
  estimated 85,000 children left orphaned in Rwanda
  
• Today, the number stands at 613,000 orphans age
  0-14, the highest in the world
• 31 of children age 5-14 in Rwanda are forced
  into child labor to survive

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Statistics today

• Population 32,805,041
• Pop. Growth rate 0.9
• Median age 38.54 years
• Life expectancy 80.1 years
• Birth rate/1000 10.84 births
• Death rate/1000 7.73 deaths
• Population Density 3.3 per sq.km

• Population 8,440,820
• Pop. Growth rate 2.9
• Median age 18.1 years
• Life expectancy 39.33 years
• Birth rate/1000 40.6 births
• Death rate/1000 16.32 deaths
• Population Density 290 per Sq.km
• (Highest population density in Africa)

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Age structure
0-14 years Rwanda 41.9
Canada 17.9 15-64 years Rwanda 55.5
Canada 68.9 65 years
Rwanda 2.6 Canada 13.2
http//www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/
rw.html
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Rwanda - Basic data Social Indicators

• GDP per capita US 237
• Access to safe water 44
• Access to health care 81

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Children raising children

• An estimated 101,000 children heading up some
  42,000 households.
• It is not uncommon to see nine-year-olds take on
  the role of head of the family and go out to work
  to support younger brothers and sisters.
• UNICEF
• http//www.unicef.org/infobycountry/rwanda_20343
  .html

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Literacy in Rwanda

• Literacy age 15 48
• Gross Primary enrol. 88
• Gross Secondary enrol. 10
• Gross tertiary enrol. lt 1
• Workers trained beyond secondary lt 5
• Trained managers lt 0.1

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WE CAN MAKE IT BETTER
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The youth are the future
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We must fight for their rights and needs
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ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT   A philanthropic world.
  We are one world, we need one love, and it
is our destiny.
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MISSION
The mission of Room For Improvement is to foster
social development in disadvantaged communities
by helping the youths to rediscover their
self-esteem and hope in the world and working to
bring about unity in the world. This shall be
achieved by fighting to provide these youths with
basic needs, education.
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PHILOSOPHY

• Education is a basic human right
• Literacy is the prime means of eliminating
  poverty and ending civil strife
• Strong community involvement is essential to the
  development and maintenance of an excellent
  community development program.
• 4. With the development of one community we come
  closer to the improvement of our world.

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GOALS

• To improve the quality and delivery of education
  available to disadvantaged communities.
• To maintain a strong Community Based Organization
  capable of obtaining funding from a variety of
  national and international governmental and
  non-governmental agencies and other methods to
  fulfill our projects.
• To re-establish self esteem and unity between
  communities, especially the youths.

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Room For Improvement

• CONTACT INFORMATION
• Alexis Nyandwi
• Email philanthropyworld_at_yahoo.ca
• Phone [phone]

• One world, one love, its our destiny