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| | UN Volunteers help widows and young girls in Rwanda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | In Rwanda, a tiny, strife-torn East African country, national UNV field workers are helping widows and girl orphans raise an income in the rural areas around Umutara, Kibungo, Kigali Rural, Butare and Gitarama. |
 | | Auréa Gasengayire, Drocelle Mukazayire and Hélène Muragijemariya, all Rwandans, are three of the UN Volunteer field workers taking part in a UNV programme targeting the needs of some 17,000 people. |
 | | In the district of Gitarama, a prefecture of 853,000 people about 50 kilometres from the capital Kigali, the UN Volunteers have since 1997 helped form 13 groups promoting microprojects and revitalizing activities for the development of 10 associations. |
| www.unv.org /infobase/unv_news/2000/88/00_06_88RWA_gend.htm (462 words) |
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