WASHINGTON - As the ‘One Dollar Campaign’ gains momentum across the globe, Saturday saw Rwanda’s celebrated musicians Eric Nshimiyumuremyi and Richard Nick Ngendahayo, perform to a mixed audience of Rwandan US Diaspora and their American friends in Washington DC.

The artists joined the campaign in order to popularize the idea among the Rwanda Diaspora in America.

Rwanda’s Ambassador to the United States, Eng. James Kimonyo and the entire Embassy team attended the show.

The fundraising campaign was part of a comprehensive strategy intended at creating awareness for the charity initiative.

The President of Rwanda International Network Association (RINA)  Mr. Jean Pierre Kayinamura, expressed gratitude towards the artists for their unconditional support towards this noble cause.

The campaign is aimed at raising funds to finance the establishment of accommodation facilities for the orphans of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

He said that, one dollar is symbolic or acts as a minimum which an individual can contribute but much more is predictable.

In the United States, during the period of the Genocide Commemoration week, the campaign was launched at Ray Ban Building (Capitol Hill) and Nkurunziza Evangelical Church (Chevy Chess) on 7th and 12 April 2009 respectively.

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