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Rwanda
Small in
geographical size, Rwanda has recently become a serious player in
the East African Community and a showpiece country where many
state-of-the-art projects and initiatives are piloted. The likes of
Bill Gates and Tony Blair, as well as leading companies and
organizations such as Starbucks, the Clinton Foundation or Partners
in Health have all been drawn here and contribute their share to
Vision 2020 which wants to turn Rwanda from one of the poorest
places on earth into a middle-income country within only few
decades.
Behind this success story lies an exceptionally strong and visionary
leadership that ensures good accountability and little corruption,
and that calls for trade and investments instead of aid.
As a result, the country has become increasingly interesting for a
variety of visitors who are looking for more than the extraordinary
beauty of the 'Land of a Thousand Hills' and the hospitality of the
'Land with a Million Smiles'. Truly enough, Rwanda also harbors
about half of the world’s remaining highly endangered mountain
gorillas in Volcanoes National Park as well as two other diverse and
attractive national parks with Nyungwe, the largest mountainous
rainforest in central and east Africa, and Akagera, an exciting
savannah and wetland habitat with increasing numbers of game animals
and excellent bird life.
But what made Rwanda the leading Eos Visions country is the amazing
opportunity to learn about a variety of challenges and success
stories that concern much of the developing world. Rwanda is
educational tourism and incentive travel at its best, with highly
hospitable and accessible partners that are keen to welcome visitors
and build further partnerships all in a small country with excellent
infrastructure.
Special highlights:
- General health care (success
stories in rural health provision)
- HIV/AIDS (prevention and
treatment, data management, capacity building etc)
- Mental health and the impacts
of genocide
- Primary and secondary
education
- Traditional legal systems
(including gacaca)
- Social work (exemplary
initiatives)
- General development - the UN
Millennium Villages Project and other successful initiatives
- The Starbucks story on coffee
- Conservation success stories
- Micro-enterprise development
- Gender - the country with the
highest percentage globally of women in parliament
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