Student association creates ‘families’ for genocide survivors
Gilbert Gasigwa was just 10 years old when the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which orphaned him, began.
As a consequence of the turmoil, he was uprooted and had to move from the Nyanza district in the Southern Province where he had been living with his family, to the home of his aunt, a farmer with two children, residing in the Ruhango district of the same province.
“I always felt lonely. I lost my parents and many relatives during the genocide. I felt no one had more problems than I,” Gasigwa says, recalling his painful childhood.
Gasigwa always wondered why he had survived.