Editor,

I am writing to correct what the journalist Edmond Kagire wrote about my statement during the function where First Lady opened an orphanage on Wednesday the Feb. 25th.
And Kagire wrote:

"The function was also attended by the Minister of Gender and Family Development, Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya, who commended the Foundation and the First Lady for promoting the rights of children, calling upon everyone to play their role in ensuring that all children at least have a family so that by 2020, no more orphaned children will be in the country. She noted that since 1997, the number of orphaned children has significantly reduced from 14,000 to 3500 because of government efforts”.

But what I really said is that...”all children should have a family so that by 2020, no more orphans should be living in orphanages in our country.” 

And I noted that since 1997, the number of orphans living in orphanages has significantly reduced from 14000 to 3900 because of government efforts to mobilize families to foster children from orphanages to their homes.

So the number of orphaned children is not 3500 as he wrote, we have more but we are talking about those that are living in orphanages.

Dr. MUJAWAMARIYA Jeanne d’Arc
MIGEPROF