Co-FounderHope and Peace Foundation Rwanda
Emmanuel Rutikanga from Kigali, Rwanda, is holder of bachelors degree in Economics and business studies majored in Finance at Kigali Independent University he is also a holder of diploma in community driven social changes from Goldin Institute based in Chicago Illinois, he is a co-author of an article called “Of Milk Pots and Cattle Keepers.” in African Arts, Winter 2018, Volume 51, No. 4: 70-85. Emmanuel is a board member in HCH (House of culture heritage), an organization which serves the community through vocational service-based activities via cultural art, Emmanuel also volunteers at the Streets Ahead Children's Centre Association (SACCA), a local NGO registered in Rwanda which works to protect and rehabilitate children at risk of homelessness in the Eastern Province of Rwanda. He is the Co-Founder and Executive Secretary of the Hope and Peace Foundation Rwanda, which is dedicated to: 1. Fostering unity and reconciliation among youth survivors, youths whose parents participated in the Genocide and Youth born from rape in 1994 genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi. 2. women still haunted from suffering rape of 1994 genocide against Tutsi, 3. To take care of the ladies and girls who were raped during the Genocide. 4. To take care of elderly widows without children and he started the Hope and Peace Foundation to unite and reconcile youths whose families were on different sides of the Genocide.