Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee will join the international community to celebrate the annual International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) due on April 6. The IDSDP is an opportunity to demonstrate sport as an "Important enabler” of Peace and understanding as indicated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

On August 23, 2013 the UN proclaimed that the IDSDP would be celebrated on this day each year. This date also marks the opening of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.

Fidele Sebalinda, the RNOSC communication officer, said: "With 2016 being an Olympic year, the ambition is to build a communication campaign using inspirational stories that will echo and illustrate specifically on values of the Olympic Truce that is to say; tolerance, solidarity and peace.”

"IOC has appointed film production crew from the World Film to film video stories by Football for Hope, Peace and Unity an organization based in Rwanda with the aim to raise awareness and commemorate genocides and more specifically the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi,” he adds.

From March 19-21, the film crew will be shooting at the main venues that include; Dream Team Football Academy, Kicukiro, FERWAFA pitch, Rubavu Football Center and Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village, Rwamagana.

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