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Mapendo* had never left Kiziba Camp since his arrival in 2020 from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.  He knows refugees like him from him country of origin found refuge in other seven camps and had never envisaged meeting other youth of his age group for interaction and having good times, despite the hard refugee life. 

“I don’t know what to say.  To have had an opportunity to travel to Mahama is a dream come true for me” said Mapendo.

8 September, 2023 (Kigali, Rwanda) – Today, the global Education Above All (EAA) Foundation and UN Sustainable Development Goals Advocate announced a partnership aimed at providing quality primary education to every remaining out-of-school child (OOSC) in Rwanda.

MAHAMA, Rwanda, 20 July 2023 – The lives of 93 babies have been saved in the last three months in the largest refugee camp in Rwanda following the launch of a revamped state-of-the art medical facility with the capacity to carry out caesarean sections in partnership with Population, Refugees and Migration Bureau (PRM), UNHCR, UNFPA and Japan Embassy, Save the Children said.

This week, in Save the Children’s newly opened Medicalized Health Center in the Mahama Refugee Camp II, the first three cesarean operations were performed successfully by the medical team.