Prime Life and Prime Insurance staff, on Friday, visited Rukumberi Memorial site in Ngoma District to pay respects to 35,000 victims of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi buried there. The place holds a special history of how the Genocide was planned and executed, according to survivors. Grégoire Minani, the chief executive of Prime Life Insurance, said, “We have come to remember those who died and assist Genocide survivors because the area holds a unique history of the 1994 Genocide.” “We hope that the courage that was characterised by the people who arrived here in 1960’s will serve as a sanative to the actual survivors, and strengthen them as well as give them hope to make them resist even more and progress in life.” The employees donated 10 cows to 10 families of Genocide survivors. “This is a way of making them feel that they haven’t been forgotten, we hope the beneficiaries will make use of the cows to improve the quality of their lives,” Minani said. The Executive Secretary of Rukumberi Sector, Egide Hanyurwimfura, thanked both Prime Life and Prime Insurance for their support. James Munyakundi, one of the beneficiaries, said he looked forward to milk sales once the cow produces and use its manure to help increase his farm produce. Yvonne Mbabazi, another survivor, said she was so humbled after being chosen among the cattle beneficiaries. “Apart from improving my life, the cow will make me busy everyday and this will keep my mind occupied and I believe there will be no room for thinking about what happened in the past again,” Mbabazi said.
