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“Illustration is an amazing way of communication.Pictures or illustrations speak louder to children, so we find it as the best way of telling children’s stories.Children love them”. – Adolphe Banza

The event, which encourages children to read during Umuganda while adults engage in community service, is an initiative piloted by Save the Children and Umuhuza as part of its USAID-funded Mureke Dusome project.

“There are some youth who take drugs here in the camp. It is their choice, but it is not the right one."

To boost the supply and demand of quality Kinyarwanda children's books in schools, Save the Children's Mureke Dusome project organized a visit for the publishing sector to Gicumbi and Burera districts on Friday, 22^nd July. The event was attended by over 41 participants including publishers, authors, illustrators and designers of Kinyarwanda children’s books in the Rwanda Children’s Book Forum.

Every day war and violence forces thousands of children and their families to flee their homes. In the height of the chaos, some are separated from their families, while others do not know that they are refugees.