On 09/09/2023, at the headquarters of the Rwanda Red Cross, a meeting was held that brings together the senior leaders of the Rwanda Red Cross and the leaders of the District Committees. In that meeting, it was revealed that the committees have reached the 2022-Imihigo 2023, and they have proposed the Imihigo 2023-2024, where in those pledges it appears that the members of the Red Cross of Rwanda will plant more than a million trees and also make Model Village in each sectors that make up the country.
The President of the Rwanda Red Cross Mrs. MUKANDEKEZI Françoise explained that the process of preparing the Imihigo is important because it makes people know how to value what they have done, and she also said that they are happy with what has been achieved and are determined to leave behind the achievements, where she said that the criteria for fulfilling the Imihigo it’s up.
“After we concluded the meeting to review the pledges we made as promised, but we also signed other pledges for the following year, we are really proud of what we have achieved in the pledges at the end of our cooperation with members in different regions, and we have taken measures to leave what we have achieved so that next year the standards we have seen will be low but will go up as the years go by, so we feel we have confidence in the will of the members that they are going to implement it and we feel that we will do everything possible to be able to achieve it, especially since we are the ones who created it and compared it with the ability we have to implement it.” Said Mrs. MUKANDEKEZI Françoise.
In this meeting, it was also explained that all the activities of the Rwanda Red Cross are based on a 5-year plan (Strategic Plan 2022-2026). It was said that in the areas the activities will be based on the forest program called Model Village where each sector will have, they will focus on activities related to fighting disasters and reducing their severity by planting up to a million trees every year and they will be monitored until they mature; there is also a program to improve nutrition and develop poor families where groups are established to promote savings and trade. Attention will also be paid to the program of educating the people to take care of cleanliness and hygiene.
Mrs. MUKANDEKEZI Françoise said: “This year, it has been seen that increasing the number of members is an effort, and we are proud that the Red Cross relies on the strength of the members, in the strategic plan we prioritize the Wilderness in each sector, it is our commitment because it is closer to the members and where we have the fastest development of the people, so we will put special efforts in this project so that we can achieve satisfactory standards, and the other is to fight disasters, we are putting efforts in planting trees, we must plant at least a million trees.”
The President of the Executive Committee of the Red Cross in Gicumbi District, says that they will cooperate with the relevant institutions and the people in order to fulfill their commitments, and he hopes that they will be able to achieve it together.
He said: “We will cooperate with the institutions we represent to implement it.”
In that meeting, the Secretary General of the Rwanda Red Cross, Mr. KARAMAGA Apollinaire, explained in general the important activities of the Rwanda Red Cross in the past year 2022-2023 where he showed that efforts were made to find out how the Red Cross Rwanda would learn especially from the fact that the world economy is going backwards where the Red Cross of Rwanda is no longer able to help them.
In this context, he explained that hotels have been built in different places: there is RIS Kivu Breeze Hotel in Karongi, the hotel is going to be abandoned this month on the 10th of Nyanza. He also spoke about the educational activities of the regional committees where he mentioned the accommodation being built in Ngoma and business houses in Kirehe.
In the meeting, the process of elections of the Rwanda Red Cross Committees, which will start in the 10th month from the cell level, was also discussed.
By Carine Kayitesi
