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The Administration of Kabgayi Hospital continues to help survivors of the 1994 genocide against Tutsi. Those targeted as priority are poor men and women,  the Hospital has been recently donating cows progressively to survivors in Muhanga District.

Dr. Osee Sebatunzi the director of Kabgayi Hospital said that they decided to help poor genocide survivors because many of them became poor as a result of the effects of genocide that was perpetrated against them.

This hospital gave a cow to a poor old woman and students who survived genocide in Kabgayi Catholic Institute. A student who represented others said that this cow will help change their social welfare especially as most of them are orphans and are usually affected by many problems.

Vital Nyakayiro who had represented Ibuka in this function said that if these actions could be done everywhere in the country would be a solution in forging unity and reconciliation as the survivors’ problems that were caused by fellow Rwandans during the genocide would be solved in one way or the other.

Ubuyobozi n’abakozi b’ibitaro bya Kabgayi biyemeje gufasha abarokotse jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu mwaka w’1994 mu rwego rwo kubakura mu cyiciro cy’ubukene.

Ibi bikaba babitangiye kuri uyu wa 22/6/2012 ubwo bafashaga bamwe mu barokotse iyi jenoside bo mu karere ka Muhanga ibi bitaro biherereyemo.

Dr Osee Sebatunzi akaba avuga ko bifuje gufasha abarokotse jenoside batishoboye mu rwego rwo kubakura muri icyo cyiciro abenshi barimo kubera ingaruka za jenoside yabakorewe.

Ibi bitaro bikaba byahaye inka umukecuru utishoboye ndetse n’abanyeshuri bacitse ku icumu rya jenoside yakorewe abatutsi bo muri Kaminuza Gatolika ya Kabgayi.

Umunyeshuri uhagarariye aba bahawe inka akaba avuga ko iyi nka izabafasha gutera intambwe mu buzima bahoramo, avuga ko bakunze guhuran’ibibazo bitari bike kuko usanga benshi muri bo ari imfubyi zirera.

Uwari uhagarariye umuryango uharanira inyungu z’abarokotse jenoside IBUKA muri uyu muhango, Vital Nyakayiro we asanga iki gikorwa gikomeje n’ahandi byazajya bifasha abanyarwanda mu bumwe n’ubwiyunge kuko abarokotse bazaba babayeho neza, bityo bimwe mu bibazo batewe n’abanyarwanda bagenzi babo mu gihe cya Jenoside bikagenda bikemuka.

some of the 1994 genocide against Tutsi survivors in Kabgayi in Muhanga district in the Southern Province of Rwanda said that they would like to have a place they can testify to their most difficult situations during the genocide to ease the pain in their hearts but in secrecy.

One of the people who survived at Kabgayi said that during the genocide, many women and girls experienced many traumatic experiences and they wish to have trusted people to talk to about such things so as to ease their pain.

“Some of us women were raped and others were defiled and others were raped with clubs and we wish we could have people to listen to us because we can’t testify about such things anywhere, we wish we could get a secret and trusted place where we could talk about our burdens and maybe we can be relieved.” She stressed.

Janvier Forongo The executive secretary of Ibuka said that this place should be introduced so as to make people who had traumatic experiences to ease them and move on with their lives.

Forongo said Ibuka prepared these places and in almost all sectors in the country there Are Ibuka and AVEGA workers who were trained about listening to people that were hurt and had traumatic experiences in the genocide.

He asked genocide survivors that were traumatized to trust them and give them their testimonies. He also said that because most women and girls were mistreated during the genocide and that’s why they have a day to remember women and girls that were killed during the genocide.

Such a function will be held in Kibirizi in Nyanza district where 350 women were killed and one place where the majority women killed in Rwanda. Alphonse Munyantwari the governor of Southern Province of Rwanda said that Rwandans should help each other to heal because where there is a problem, a solution can be found.

Milk, fruits and vegetables

Kabgayi Hospital nutritionist has said that residents in Rwanda and other developing countries eat food for satisfaction rather than essential vitamins that the bodies derive from different foods.

Eating big quantities of food than a well balanced diet has been the leading cause of many diseases among which malnutrition is inclusive, asserts Immaculée Nyiravugimana a nutritionist at Kabgayi Hospital.

However, malnutrition is caused by little knowledge on what a well balanced diet is or how to prepare one and poverty to some who cannot afford to get milk, eggs and meat among others.

Residents with malnutrition problems blame it on the poverty saying that balanced diet is for urban people who can afford expensive food stuffs.

Jeanne Mukamana, a mother of five and a resident of Mushishiro sector in Muhanga district lamented: “well balanced diet is for the people in towns. It’s where you can get rice and others but here; it is a matter of getting what satisfies your children”

Sometimes, it becomes necessary that we sell the little milk we get, vegetables and eggs in order to get money for some home necessities, Jeanne Mukamana reveals.

While rural people think that urban fellows are very much informed about eating balanced foods to fight malnutrition, some town dwellers confess to know little or nothing about the issue.

Uwamahoro, Muhanga town resident revealed: “To me a balanced diet is eating well cooked food like chips, meat and other foods that only rich people can afford.”

Controversially, Immaculée Nyiravugimana a nutritionist at Kabgayi Hospital emphasises that eating right does not require one to be rich like how rural people stretch.

« Its only that most residents are ignorant about preparing this important meal. There are few people who cannot afford Indagala yet they equate to eating meat. Even little milk a day helps but these people focus on eating plenty food, » Immaculée Nyiravugimana discloses.

Up to now, there are still malnutrition cases in different villages in Rwanda. In the campaign to fight malnutrition, it is vital that all residents should be sensitised on preparing a well balanced diet for the good health of Rwandese in general.

Muri gahunda yayo yo gufasha abatishoboye cyane cyane ababana n’ubwandu bwa virusi itera sida, tariki 11/01/2012, Caritas ya Diyosezi Gaturika ya Kabgayi ibinyujije mu mushinga wayo witwa Single Streem for Funding  of HIV(SSFHIV), batanze inka ku mashyirahamwe y’abagenerwa bikorwa bayo bo mu mirenge ine y’akarere ka Muhanga: Kiyumba, Nyabinoni, Rongi na Kibangu.

Zimwe mu nka zatanzwe na Caritas

Uyu mushinga usanzwe ufasha abakene bo muri kano karere kwiteza imbere no kuzamura imirire ku babana n’ubwandu bwa virusi itera Sida.

Pamphile Bakundukize, umukozi ukurikirana ibikorwa by’uwo mushinga muri Caritas ya Diyosezi ya Kabgayi akaba ari nawe wagejeje ayo matungo ku mashyirahamwe yabagenerwa bikorwa, yavuze ko buri shyirahamwe rigizwe n’abantu 25 rigahabwa inyigisho biciye mu mahugurwa, nyuma buri shyirahamwe rigahabwa ubufasha bufite agaciro k’amafaranga miliyoni eshanu n’ibihumbi 600 mu gihe cy’umwaka umwe.

Aya mafaranga anyuzwa kuri konti z’amashyirahamwe akazakoreshwa mu bikorwa by’iterambere nyuma yuko abarigize bumvikanye ku cyakorwa hakurikijwe agace batuyemo.

Uretse abaturage bahawe izo nka batugaragarije ibyishimo n’akanyamuneza bashimira Caritas, umunyamabanga nshingwabikorwa w’umurenge wa Kuyumba, Ntagisanimana Jean Claude yadutangarije ko ibi bikorwa bya Caritas bifasha umurenge kugera kubyo wahize.

Yashimye imikoranire myiza Caritas igaragaza kuko mbere yo kujya mu baturage inyura mu nzego zibanze zikayifasha guhitamo abakwiye guhabwa ubufasha, bityo abaturage ntibabibonemo ikimenyane gikunze kuvugwa mu bikorwa nkibi.

Kimwe n’umukozi wa Caritas, uyu munyamabanga nshingwabikorwa avuga ko bazakora ibishoboka byose bakaba hafi y’abo baturage kugira ngo ayo matungo atazabapfana ubusa bayagurisha cyangwa bayafata nabi. Muri rusange, mu byiciro bibiri bizarangira muri werurwe uyu mwaka, uyu mushinga uzatanga inka 36 za kijyambere, ingurube 180 nazo zubwoko bwa kijyambere ndetse n’ibyuzi 4 by’amafi.

Mbere y’uko Caritas itanga aya matungo, ibanza gufasha abaturage gutegura ibyangombwa ayo matungo azakenera nko kubaka ibiraro, guhinga ubwatsi n’ibindi bikenerwa bitewe n’ubworozi buri shyirahamwe ryahisemo. Iki gikorwa kimara umwaka umwe kuri buri shyirahamwe nyuma amashyirahamwe yafashwaga agacutswa bagafata andi mashya.