Film screening "Rwanda Rising" on June 27 at 3pm in Preston Auditorium

More than a decade after the horrific genocide that claimed the lives of nearly
one million people, Rwanda is emerging as a beacon of hope and model for
economic progress for the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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and
Office of the President, World Bank
invite you to a screening of a 80 minute documentary,
followed by a reception
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| Rwanda Rising | |
| Written and produced by | |
| Ambassador Andrew Young | (Embedded image moved to |
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| RWANDA RISING, captures the | Flag |
| remarkable transformation | |
| underway since the tragic | Wednesday, June 27 , |
| events of 1994. ?Rwanda has | 2007 |
| just made miraculous changes,? | 3:00 pm |
| says Ambassador Young. ?After | Preston Auditorium |
| the genocide, they started from | |
| scratch and wrote a new | |
| constitution. They ended up | |
| with a government that?s 48 | |
| percent female. And they went | |
| about healing the wounds of the | |
| genocide.? | |
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| The documentary features | |
| interviews with former US | |
| President, Bill Clinton; | |
| Rwandan President, Paul Kagame; | |
| composer and musician, Quincy | |
| Jones; World Bank President, | |
| Paul Wolfowitz; and founder and | |
| CEO of Operation Hope, John | |
| Hope Bryant. | |
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| Introductory remarks by | |
| Ambassador Andrew Young Former | |
| US Ambassador to the United | |
| Nations | |
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| Brief Remarks by John Bryant | |
| Founder & CEO, Operation Hope | |
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