The Fund for the Support of Genocide survivors (FARG), on Friday, announced that it had dropped 19,514 students, representing 30.7 percent of the total number of beneficiaries. This was after a vetting process discovered that they were not eligible for support from the survivor’s fund.

A new database with the final list of the students who qualify for support from the fund was unveiled. This will help eliminate the numerous problems that have been reported at FARG.

This development comes at a time when new management has taken over, after successive administrations were dogged by allegations of corruption. Reports indicated that people, some wealthy, who were not supposed to benefit from the fund, had been facilitated, by rogue
elements in FARG to receive support while some of the desperately needy student survivors were left out.

Hopefully, these initiatives will help correct the injustice that was perpetrated against some of the survivors, while at the same time, saving money for other important FARG programmes. The new database will also help in streamlining delivery of support to the beneficiaries.

As the vetting exercise continues, the Rwandan public expects that when it is finally concluded, FARG will be able to offer support to those who truly deserve it, and in the process provide a brighter future to student survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

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