Reconciliation week starts today

KIGALI - The long awaited reconciliation week starts today in all parts of the country with the main celebrations set to start simultaneously in every district. Adeline Muhoza, the Public Relations Officer of the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC) explained that different sectors countrywide have been selected to host the opening celebrations. “In Gasabo district, Nduba sector will host the celebrations; Nyakabanda will host those in Nyarugenge while people in Kicukiro will gather in Kagarama Sector to mark the day,” Muhoza said, appealing to all people to be there. The New Times has also learnt that Bugesera will hold the opening celebrations in Rweru sector; Rwamagana will hold theirs in Muhazi and Gahini in Kayonza. Muhoza revealed that the celebrations will run from 8a.m to midday before embarking on other planned activities that include visiting prisons and centers of children, especially those orphaned by the 1994 Tutsi Genocide. Meanwhile, youth representatives from all over the country, held a two-day workshop last week in which Goreth Mukandoli from the Ministry of Youth and Culture urged the National Youth Commission (NYC) to fully take into account the potential contribution of the young generation. “As youth, we should know that it is important to do things which we are entitled to when we are still energetic. That is why we go an extra mile to unite as young people,” she said, adding that the ministry would fully assist to achieve this noble goal. She highlighted that youth constitute more than 60 percent of the country’s population and emphasised that they should be at the forefront in fostering unity and reconciliation. Ends