Emmanuel Rutikanga
Executive Secretary, Hope and Peace Foundation Rwanda
Emmanuel Rutikanga from Kigali, Rwanda, is the Executive Secretary of the Hope and Peace Foundation Rwanda, which is dedicated to: 1. Fostering unity and reconciliation among youth survivors and youths whose parents participated in the Genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi in 1994. 2. To take care of the ladies and girls who were raped during the Genocide. 3. To take care of elderly widows without children. Emmanuel is a board member in Afrocity, an organization which serves the community through vocational service-based activities, and he started the Hope and Peace Foundation to unite and reconcile youths whose families were on different sides of the Genocide. Emmanuel also volunteers at the Streets Ahead Children’s Centre Association (SACCA), a local NGO registered in Rwanda which works to protect and rehabilitate children at risk of homelessness in the Eastern Province of Rwanda.