Meet-The-President-2013: Kagame meets 37,000 students on Saturday

Rwandan Youths expectations are in high gear as they prepare to hold the second dialogue encounter with their president, Paul Kagame this Saturday, June 15, 2013 at Amahoro stadium.

The Legacy of Self Reliance and sustainability, find home grown solutions and the contribution of youths to the country’s development will top on the youth’s agenda as the share their experiences with the president in a more causal but focused series.

The first ever “MeethePresident” forum was held on October 19, 2012 and was attended by over 25000 university students from 32 institutes of higher learning across the country. This time around, Kagame is expected to meet with over 37,660 high school graduates who have completed their civic education courses.

The youths will be able to participate in the forum, and others are expected to follow the series through live streaming on twitter, facebook, and the national Radio and Television. They are expected to ask questions and also tell the president, their ambitions, expectations and commitments towards making Rwanda as self reliant nation.

The former students have been involved in various community development activities- such as education and mobilization on preventing HIV/Aids, conducting literacy classes and research work in their respective communities.

These 37,660 fresh high school graduates formed in an association called ‘Urugerero’ , with 18,675 of them being young women. They spent seven months working in our local communities building houses for the poorest, building roads, planting trees, helping tackle soil erosion and many other activities and  also committed to help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS in their generation!

In President Kagame’s twitter message to the youth, he said ‘Leaders of tomorrow must be ready to lead today’

Some of the youths live twitter streams have indicated a positive approach and carrying on the legacy of self reliance as a prospectus for the country’s development, however some of the youths like Philemon Mbayisha twitted- “Does today a women have an abilty to led this prosperous country one day?”

An official facebook post by Urugerero youth organization said: “We are the Agaciro generation and we’re excited to show His Excellency and Rwanda how we have played our part in building our communities.”

In the pioneer event in 2012, President Paul Kagame told Rwandan youths should choose to be ‘horses’ or ‘horse riders as they make very important choices for the future of Rwanda. Kagame said that “a Legacy of self reliance is very important& requires hard work. I hope that you are ready to work hard”