In my previous evaluation exercise I participated in southern Rwanda in a place called Gikongoro, I was rather thunderstruck by the degree of drunkard ness people there portrayed.

One of the respondents, who also doubled as a victim of that heavy drinking, a battered wife of a drunkard husband’ names with held to minimize her troubles, reported that some men there have constructed drunkard ness as a culture, asserting that, for a man to be called one, has to be taking a minimum of 2 bottles of local brew at least if he cant afford the minimum of 4 primus bottles.

People are visibly torn apart by alcoholism in many ways, and this has had a devastating impact on their homes and lives as a consequence.

I therefore take this plat form to awaken all the countrymen and women to discard their drinking habits, mostly in this period of social and economic re construction. Such instead of registering many hard drinkers, we register hard workers.

KICUKIRO