Yannick Tona the Youth Ambassador for Harmony yesterday attended the launch of Carl Wilkens’s book “I’M NOT LEAVING” at Kigali Genocide Memorial Center in Rwanda-Kigali.
Carl Wilkens is former head of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International in Rwanda. In 1994 and the only American who chose to remain in the country after the genocide began in Rwanda. He is now Director of World outside my shoes, a NGO that raise awareness in schools and communities about genocide. Today, Wilkens tours the United States to speak to students, teachers, and parents about his experience in Rwanda.
The Launch of his Book was attended also by The Rwanda Minister of foreign Affairs and Cooperation Louise Mushikiwabo as guest of honour, The Chairman of commission in Rwanda Parliament charge to fight against genocide and his ideology MP Kalisa, Charge d’ affair of US Embassy in Kigali Anne, Gisimba Damascene who with help of Carl manager to save lives of 400 people during the genocide.
The Book is about Carl Wilkens experience in Rwanda during the genocide 1994.
“Some time I feel I don’t have words how I can thank you for what you did and what you are doing for young people in Rwanda and other part of the world” said Yannick Tona to Carl Wilkens after the Launch of the book.
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