It is with great pleasure that I express my appreciation to you for honoring our invitation. I wish to welcome you to this auspicious occasion to celebrate the recent victory of Rwandans and to inaugurate our Annual Unity Award.

Unity Club takes pride in providing a platform for leaders to guide the general public towards rebuilding a new Rwanda as we stitch back together the social fabric destroyed in the years leading to and during the 1994 genocide. The Club had a humble beginning in 1996 as a forum for women leaders who identified a need to contribute to unity and reconciliation. The Club has since evolved to include former and current leaders and their spouses, to further strengthen this noble cause of promoting national unity. This is a commission that falls squarely on us leaders and we must work together towards that common goal.

In a special way, Unity Club wants to recognize the efforts of people who have promoted and continue to support unity and reconciliation. Please join us in presenting this inaugural annual award as a mark of our progress in uniting Rwandans !

Madam Jeannette Kagame

Chairperson of Unity Club