City of Kigali donates items worth Rwf50m to TZ evictees

The City of Kigali (CoK) on Sunday donated an assortment of consumables and household items worth Rwf 50 million to evictees from Tanzania, who are currently settled at Kiyanzi camp, Kirehe District.The items included 22 tonnes of food, 100 mattresses, five cartons of washing soap and an assortment of clothes. Speaking at the handover ceremony, Alphonse Nizeyimana, the City vice mayor in charge of finance and economic development, said the donation was in the spirit of brotherhood.“We should never wait for other people to solve our problems,” he said, adding that CoK will continue the spirit of reaching out to the vulnerable.Vestine Kampundu, one of the evictees thanked CoK for the gesture. “My five children and I were evicted from our home, leaving behind my husband and property; a week later I heard that he had been killed. However, gestures like these comfort us.”Some of the evictees lost property and relatives during the eviction.Jacquline Murekatete, the vice Mayor in charge of social affairs in Kirehe District, also called upon the camp dwellers to be strong in the face of adversity, saying it’s the only way they would make progress.Kiyanzi camp hosts 2,600 evictees of the over 5,000 who were evicted from Tanzania, some of them having lived there for over six decades.

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City of Kigali donates items worth Rwf50m to TZ evictees