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Assumpta Umutesi

Assumpta Umutesi Profile

I am 19 years old.  I live in Kigali.  I know about FIDESCO and this program because the Director of FIDESCO is the father of one of my schoolmates.

I grew up in KABUGA village.  After the genocide, I left the Western Province where I was living and somehow ended up in an orphanage.  I was three years old at that time, so I don’t remember anything.  From 1994 to 2001, I lived there and it was a good life.  They cared for me and we were educated.

 

But, in 2001, the orphanage closed.  They asked families to take the children. …

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