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Swedish teens help educate and empower female refugees in Rwanda
26 Mar 2008 Some US$900,000 raised by Swedish teenagers is giving female refugees in Rwanda the chance to become more independent. -
A decade on the run: Rwandan refugees' life mirrors the tumult of Africa's Great Lakes
26 Oct 2006 A Rwandan family's remarkable trek through the vast Congo reflects the genocide, numerous wars and other tragedies that have afflicted Africa's Great Lakes region over the past 12 years. Finally, for this family at least, there's the prospect of a happy ending. -
No, they're not magic, but mushrooms help refugees in Rwanda
13 Jun 2006 HIV-positive Congolese refugees and their friends and families are improving their diets and their incomes with an innovative project that grows mushrooms in a crowded refugee camp in Rwanda. -
Thousands of Swedish teenagers collect money for refugee schools in Rwanda
10 May 2006 Some 80,000 teenagers from some 250 high schools in Sweden participated in a campaign to collect money for the education of Congolese refugee children in Rwanda. The event, dubbed "Operation A Day's Work", was organised by the Swedish Student Organisation. -
Rwandan cooperative shows reconciliation needed to draw refugees home
8 Feb 2006 A coffee cooperative linking both sides of the 1994 Rwandan genocide is an example of the reconciliation that UNHCR hopes can draw refugees home, a vital part of creating peace and stability in the region. -
Refugee return is the spark of hope in the Great Lakes
6 Jan 2006 The Democratic Republic of the Congo is currently at the centre of various refugee return movements. Congolese refugees are returning home to eastern DRC from Tanzania, while Rwandan refugees are going back home to Rwanda after spending years in the forests of the Kivu provinces. And, those are just the major repatriation operations. -
Teenagers celebrate New Year in Burundi after returning home from Rwanda
3 Jan 2006 Two teenage Burundian refugees are celebrating the New Year back home in Burundi with their families after returning from half a year unaccompanied in exile in Rwanda. -
Rwandan refugees in Malawi encouraged to return after 'go-and-see' visit
28 Dec 2005 Josephine, a Rwandan refugee living in Malawi, recently made a brief and emotional return to Rwanda. She was on a UNHCR-organized "go-and-see" visit designed to give her and other refugees still in Malawi a clearer picture of what life is really like at home, 11 years after the genocide and civil war that caused them to flee. -
Refugees cook up appreciation for the environment in Rwanda
14 Nov 2005 During a recent Environment Week ceremony in Kiziba Camp in Rwanda, Congolese refugees were given a Blind Taste Test to see if they preferred beans and corn cooked over traditional open wood fires to those brewed up on new environmentally-friendly stoves. There was no clear winner - which in itself was a victory for the new stoves which consume 20 percent less fuel.