Caption: Prison Gitarama, Credit: Peltner
Image by: Peltner 
Prison Gitarama 

Visit to Rwanda

From: Arndt Peltner
Length: 00:12:53

A country in change, that is still hold back by its recent past Read the full description.

Ruanda3_small I visited Rwanda and was asked by the protestant radio agency in Germany to interview Eugenie Musayidire, the recipient of the Nuremberg Human Rights Award in 2007. I met her in the "Hotel Rwanda", she invited me to visit her new project in a prison in Gitarama. There she is working to establish a children's house on the prison grounds.

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I visited Rwanda and was asked by the protestant radio agency in Germany to interview Eugenie Musayidire, the recipient of the Nuremberg Human Rights Award in 2007. I met her in the "Hotel Rwanda", she invited me to visit her new project in a prison in Gitarama. There she is working to establish a children's house on the prison grounds.

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