Rwanda: From Darkness to Hope | film screening, May 10 at Schema : more than ethnic

Rwanda: From Darkness to Hope | film screening, May 10

Building Bridges with Rwanda (BBR) invites you to a special evening remembering the 13th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. A hope-filled evening of slides, food, wine and a screening and talkback session with filmmaker Claude Adams and his film Out of the Darkness, a 1-hour documentary looking at the crisis of justice in Rwanda, 4 years after the 1994 genocide.

Rwanda: From Darkness to Hope

Thursday, May 10, 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Suggested donation is $10-20 but no one will be turned away.
Roundhouse Theatre Performance Centre<
INFO: Lama Mugabo at 778.839.4839 or www.bbrwanda.org

Hosted by the radio personality Kathryn Gretsinger.

Come out and support Canadian efforts to join hands with Rwandans to rebuild their country and improve their quality of life. Proceeds from this event will support UNATEK; a community college in Kibungo working to empower widows of the genocide to rebuild the community from bottom up.

Mr. Claude Adams will have just returned from a teaching assignment in Rwanda through the Rwandan Initiative; a Carleton University program that is taught through the National University of Rwanda Journalism School to train professional journalists. He will share with the audience his insights and update footage of the progress being made with the ongoing rebuilding efforts.

In 100 days, more than 1million Rwandans were massacred in one of the worlds’ worse catastrophes in the 20th Century. They were killed because they belonged to a minority ethnic group or because they refused to espouse the ethnic cleansing ideology perpetrated by their own government. Rwanda hit rock bottom.

13 years later, we are witnessing the rebuilding of a nation, as Rwandans have rallied around their flag to foster a new nation based on a vision to fight poverty, ignorance and ethnic divisiveness. Building Bridges with Rwanda is a local non-profit organization that facilitates linking Canadian expertise with Rwandan development needs.

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