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Parents have to take the first step in eliminating kwashiorkor in their children by minding their children’s nutrition, the governor of Northern Province of Rwanda Aime Bosenibamwe said.

The governor took time to have a discussion with local people after joining them in the community work on Tuesday the 12^th.Feb.2013 in Muko sector in Musanze district that was done on the banks of Susa River.

Governor Aime Bosenibamwe in community work

Susa River is commonly known for over flooding and destroying people’s crops and properties during the rainy season.

The governor advised people in this area to live in the allocated settlement village, to start saving in Savings and Credits Cooperative (SACCO) and parents to pay attention to their children nutrition and eradicate kwashiorkor and malnutrition.

The governor also visited Hugukirwa cooperative that makes seeds for banana trees of which he asked them to multiply these seeds to be accessed by many people.  Residents of Muko sector proved to the governor how their sector is ruled by good governance as it is no longer among the poorest sector and doing well economically.

Residents of this sector also shared with the governor on their crop harvest as a sign of stability due to good governance and enough security. Residents were asked to work hard towards development of Rwanda starting with the village.

The community work done in Muko sector in Musanze district is one of the many projects and actions being done in the month of good governance program.

Collected scrap metal

While some children wonder everywhere looking for scrap metal to sell, parents are complaining that children are adopting bad behaviors like stealing.

Selling scrap metal is a hot business all over the country where young and old search every place for old metals to sell to business people or directly to recycling factories.

Residents complain that children sometimes take useful things from homes like charcoal stoves to sell them as scrap.

An example are two children in Musambira sector in Kamonyi district were caught after stealing iron sheets and hoes to sell them, they claimed to have found them in the garbage.

Theft of this kind was confirmed by one woman in Runda sector who lost her saucepan following other metallic utensils to her scrap metal seller son.

While scrap is sold at Rwf100 a kilo in Kigali, one of the children we talked to said he gets like 20 kilograms of metal amounting to Rwf2000 a day.

Residents of Bugesera District have been pursued to dedicate their valuable time in helping disabled children among others according to the District MayorLouis Rwagaju, during recent celebrations of African child.

Louis Rwagaju asked those who had attended these celebrations to respect and protect all children’s rights and especially the handicapped whether in education, entertainment and in anything else they would like to do as the government usually calls them to do.

“This is the reason that the government puts in place infrastructure that favours handicapped people whether in school they are given chairs that support them and their special toilets and the law that states every storied building should have a way for the disabled people.” He explained.

This function was opened with sports of the disabled children, plays, poetry and dances that all tackle the theme of the day which stated “Children with disabilities, the duty to protect, respect, promote and fulfil”

Vestine Ntirenganya one of the children with disabilities from Ririma sector in Bugesera district said that though the leaders usually teach and advise people about children rights there is a long way to go.

She said “some parents don’t yet understand children’s rights especially the handicapped ones and that’s why leaders should always remind people and parents take a responsibility to attend those teachings.”

Children who presented dances, poems and plays that were talking about the theme of the day were awarded and all children who attended these celebrations were given some of the scholastic materials.

bamwe mu bana bo mumuhanda bakeneye ubufasha

Mu rwego rwo gusura imikorere y’abafatanyabikorwa mu gukemura ibibazo by’abana bafite ibibazo, mu karere ka Bugesera hateraniye inama igamije kurebera hamwe uburyo abo bana barushaho gufashwa harebwa cyane cyane uburyo batoranywa n’uburyo bakurikiranwa mu miryango.

Iyi nama yasanze abafatanyabikorwa ku bibazo by’abana bagomba kuganira ku mikoranire kugira ngo hatazabaho kugonganira ku bufasha buhabwa abo bana.

Umuhuzabikorwa wa komite yo kurwanya Sida mu karere ka Bugesera Gasirabo Eugène avuga ko ibibazo nyamukuru ari urutonde rw’abakeneye ubufasha rutarakorwa n’abana bamwe bagihurizwaho inkunga, ibyo ngo bikaba bizakemurwa ku bufatanye n’ubuyobozi bw’inzego z’ibanze zegereye abaturage.

Yagize ati: “muri iyi nama twashoboye kubona ko ikibazo cy’urutonde rukwiye kikiri ingorabahizi, ikindi twabonye ni uko hari aho abafatanyabikorwa bahurira ku bantu bamwe kandi hakiri abana bagikeneye ubufasha. Ubu tugiye gufatanya n’inzego zose mu gukora urwo rutonde kugira ngo icyo kibazo gikemuke.”

Nk’uko byagaragajwe n’abitabiriye iyo nama ngo abana bugarijwe n’ibibazo ntibaramenyekana bose, ndetse ngo hari aho usanga abakagombye gufashwa, akenshi nta bufasha bubageraho uko bikwiye cyangwa umwana umwe agafashwa henshi mu gihe ubufasha budakwira bose. Ibyo ni bimwe mu bibazo abafatanyabikorwa mu kurengera abana b’imfubyi n’abatishoboye, bamwe mu bagize komite yo kurwanya Sida mu karere ka Bugesera baganiriyeho, bashaka uko banoza imikorere n’imikoranire.

Claudine Mukandayisenga umwe mu bitabiriye iyo nama, ngo bayungukiyemo uburyo bunoze bwo guhuza ibikorwa kugira ngo uruhare rwa buri mufatanyabikorwa rugaragare.

Ati “bigaragara ko buri mushinga ufite ibyo ugomba gukora, ariko ugasanga akenshi dukora ibintu bisa, kandi twagombye kubiganiraho, tugahuza ibikorwa, hakamenyekana abagomba gufashwa n’icyo bazafashwamo.”

Ubu buryo bwo kuganira ku mikorere n’imikoranire no kwifashisha abayobozi b’inzego z’ibanze ngo bizatuma abana bafashwa bamenyekana, kuko ngo hari aho wasangaga umwana afashwa kandi wasesengura imibereho ye ugasanga hari abakeneye ubufasha kumurenza kandi bataramenyekanye.

Byongeye kandi hari abo wasangaga umwana umwe ahabwa ubufasha mu turere dutandukanye kubera ko yashyizwe ku rutonde n’umuyobozi runaka bafitanye isano.

Partners and administration of Muhanga prison have said that children born in prison or those coming with their mothers while young should not face the consequencies of their parents.

This was confirmed on February 28^th 2012 during an event to officially open a children care centre “Centre Psycho-social AMAHORO” for children that are born in Muhanga prison.

The care centre will teach children, care for them and provide advice for inmates and prison workers on mental health.

Eugeni Musayidire, founder of this centre reveals to have got the idea after visiting this prison and saw children below three years of age staying with their mothers in the prison.

Children being in prison looked like they are prisoners because they suffered the consequencies.

“These children did not know life outside the prison. They cannot differentiate a dog from a cow. They have been on their mothers backs and fear the sand we have prepared for them to play in,” adds Musayidire

One inmate with a two years old child says this care centre will help them grow well because they have been living a life of prisoners.

 “Our children could stay on our backs without space to play from but now they have got a place to play from. Although they will not meet their relatives, the care centre will teach them human behavior,” adds the prisoner mother.

One of the Acting Commissioners of prisons in Rwanda, Emmanuel Rukundo asserts that the children’s centre is a solution to the inmate mothers who have been going through the struggle to take care of themselves and also the children with less or no capacity to up bring children.

Head of Muhanga prison Gerald Ntarugera confirms that prisons are faced with problems of raising children of prisoners without the governments help.

He adds that raising inmates’ children should be a responsibility of Ministry of gender and family promotion (MIJEPROF).

Centre Psycho-social AMAHORO, was built by Eugenie Musayidire funded by Green Helmets project.

Children from Poor families residing at Kabuga village, Kibirizi sector in Nyamagabe district have been given 100 chicken as part of events on 1^st February 2012 heroes day in Rwanda.

The charity comes few days after some neighbors who own cows volunteered to always give milk to their neighboring children suffering from malnutrition. 

The practice of giving out hens and milk for the malnurished children have become famous all over Nyamagabe district and has been emphasised by the district mayor in his message to all the executive secretaries in the district.

« It is good that you are solving socia problems for each other, continue with such a good program so that we help malnourished children as some of villages have promised to give each of them a hen so that they can feed on eggs to overcome the problem, « wrote the mayor.

Mugisha  also reminded residents that 902 number of malnurished children is big and more efforts must be put for a permanent solution.

Village chairperson a dressing parents

 Local authorities in Nyamagabe district have declared to be punishing any parent with a child below the age of 18 years who is not in school as ruled out recently at Kabajogo village, Gasaka sector.   

Village leaders took the decision as a way of stopping the bad practice of using children for domestic work (child forced labor) instead of sending them to school.

Kabajogo village chairperson Sekimonyo Jean Marie Vianey said “any parent with a child who is not his or her and is not able to send him or her to school, that person must take responsibility for the child to reach his or her immediate home or else send him or her to school”.

He described that “every child should enjoy the right to education though it has been realized that most children are being stopped to attend schools by their care takers and this has to be dealt with so that everyone respects rights of children instead of taking their childhood for granted”.

Bizimana yaje gucuruza amazi

Umwana Bizimana Claude utuye mu kagari ka Nyamugari umurenge wa Gasaka akarere ka Nyamagabe, avuga ko ahengera kuri stade ya Nyagisenyi habereye ibirori akajya kuvoma amazi akayashyira mu ducupa akajya kuyagurisha akabona ibitunga iwabo.

Bizimana avuga ko aya mazi ayavoma mu iriba baturanye akayagurisha abantu baba bishwe n’inyoto aho ayabagurisha amafaranga 50 buri gacupa. Avuga uducupa akoresha ari utwo abantu baba bamazemo amazi, akadutoragura akatwoza agatangira kudukoresha.

Uyu mwana avuga ko ubusanzwe ari umunyeshuri yiga mu ishuri ribanza rya Murico mu mwaka wa 3, ariko ngo ababyeyi be nta mikoro bafite. Akaba ariyo mpamvu ahitamo kujya gushakisha imibereho. Ngo amafaranga abonye ayaha iwabo bakayahahisha.

Photo: ICT Minister Ignace Gatare talking to Nyamagabe people

Authorities of Nyamagabe district say they’ve taken strong measures to get rid of malnutrition before the end of 2012.

The mayor of Nyamagabe district Mugisha Philbert says that according to a research, 902 children have malnutrition related problems due to poor feeding habits in the whole district, a problem they are ready to deal with before the end of 2012.

ICT Minister in the President’s Office Ignace Gatare while speaking to Nyamagabe residents during an anti-malnutrition campaign, encouraged people to participate in implementing government’s programs such making kitchen gardens for malnourished children.

Nyamagabe district distributed milk to 1,500 children, as the first step to fighting malnutrition there.

Sekimonyo umuyobozi w’umudugudu akangurira abaturage gushyira abana mu ishuri

Ubuyobozi bw’umudugudu wa Kabajogo mu kagari ka Nyamugari umurenge wa Gasaka akarere ka Nyamagabe, bwafashe icyemezo cyo kujya bahana umubyeyi wese utunze umwana utarageza imyaka 18 y’amavuko utari uwe, ataramushyize mu ishuri.

Ubuyobozi bw’uyu mudugudu buvuga ko bwafashe iki cyemezo kugirango hacibwe ingeso yo kuvunisha abana bababuza ejo hazaza heza.

Umuyobozi w’umudugudu wa Kabajogo Sekimonyo Jean Marie Vianey, yavuze ko umubyeyi wese utunze umwana utari uwe kandi akaba adafite ubushobozi bwo kumushyira mu ishuri ko agomba kumushyikiriza iwabo, bitaba ibyo umurera akaba ariwe umushyira mu ishuri.

Sekimonyo avuga ko ikibazo cy’abana badashyirwa mu ishuri cyagiye kigaragara cyane, ariko ubu ngo kigiye gufatira ingamba zihamye, kugirango umwana wese yo kuvutswa amahirwe ye.