Be part of the solution

Many a time, people have a tendency to blame their failure on others. They don’t want to take the blame. They would rather reap where they have not sowed. This is a dangerous attitude which continues to hold back developing nations from attaining their dreams of attaining prosperity.President Paul Kagame’s reminder to Rwandans, that the solutions to the challenges this country faces lie with our very nation and not outside was an apt remark.Rwandans have very interesting proverbs, one of them being, ‘Ak’imuhana kaza imvura ihise’; loosely translated, means that when you await solutions from other people, in this case foreign friends, the help might come a little too late. Like the President mentioned, there is no reason whatsoever, in today’s Rwanda, why a child should be malnourished or go to bed without food. It makes no sense to read reports of school drop-outs or low enrolment rates at the primary levels of education when free education has been ushered in.It becomes reprehensible to hear reports of some people dying because they failed to afford Mutuelle de Santé.