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Olympic Day 2017

On the 25. June 2017 was the Olympic Day at Gatagara, Nyanza. Root Foundation was invited to participate with 20 children, so we started at 8pm in Bazinda. After a 3 hours ride we arrived at the Kids Play International field, who have organised the event. Every child got one T-Shirt in either green, blue, […]

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Root Foundation Kids at a wedding in Nyamirambo

This was not just any Saturday. On 8 September, some selected girls and boys of different age who were accompanied by our volunteers Amouri, Providence, Hannah and Ella took the bus in order to attend a wedding in Nyamirambo. Their performance of traditional dancing, drumming and singing was not only considered a fascinating side event […]

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We’re Building Root – Progress thanks to you!

“Murakoze cyane! Thank you very much!” to everyone who donated via our crowdfunding campaign over the period of the past few weeks!

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A family of coaches at Root Foundation

Mitch and Brad Shepard visited us with their children Adi and Ben during the last two weeks of April as friends of our organization.

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kwibuka25 at Root

On Saturday, 13 April, in the end of the Genocide memorial week, Root Foundation dedicated the program to a discussion about unity.

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High honour to host Jumelage delegation

Root Foundation feels highly honored as we were given the opportunity to host an official delegation from the German federal state Rhineland-Palatinate at our Children's Center on 8 April!

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Visit of YALI representatives

On 29 March, we hosted a small group of people connected to and working for the YALI initiative at our Center.

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Exchanging thoughts on #balanceforbetter

Finally, after a pause of three months, another Root Fellowship discussion took place at the Root House / Terra Caffè & Pastry in Kacyiru on 27 March 2019. The overall topic “Gender Inequality” provided a suitable platform to share thoughts about #balanceforbetter. This hashtag had a high outreach in the beginning of March on the occasion […]

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A musical Saturday with Green Hills students

Once more a very special Saturday Program! On 23 March, students from the top band of Green Hills Academy visited Root Foundation and brought a whole lot of music with them. Our brass band surely gained some marvellous inspirations, listening to our guests’ performance of advanced pieces such film music from the “Pirates of the […]

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Interview with top performer Francois

Francois! You reached 73 out of 73 points in the Secondary School Gra-duation Exam. We think this is amazing! How do you feel about that now? I feel happy to have finished my A level in Mathematics, Chemistry and Biology. Getting all the marks is something great in my life. Even my reputation has increased […]

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Our Brass Band at Serena Hotel!

It was by surprise that our Brass Band has been asked to perform at a function on the occasion of the 20st anniversary of the Nile Basin Initiative, an intergovernmental partnership of ten Nile Basin countries, including Rwanda. Would you guess where this function finally took place on 22 February? At Kigali Serena Hotel! This means, […]

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We moved to a new, temporary Center

On Saturday, 9 February, the Batsinda neighbourhood became witness of a huge community procession as Root Foundation relocated to a new Center. Instead of a usual Saturday Program, all our children and team members shifted pieces of furniture, music instruments and many other items to our new place which is located on a road that […]