Youth in Itorero help communities around the training sites in different activities.

Like in all districts of Rwanda, in Gisagara District Itorero for the students that completed secondary schools in 2011 are helping the residents after the training acquired in day to day activities and helping in solving their problems.

There are 316 girls and 300 boys at two sites (Groupe Scholaire Philipe Nelly GISAGARA and Groupe Scholaire St François d’Assise KANSI).

The youth Intore came from 13 sectors that make Gisagara District of which 7 sectors namely Kansi, Kibirizi, Kigembe, Nyanza, Save, Mugombwa and Mukindo gathered at Groupe Scholaire St François d’Assise KANSI while youth from 6 sectors namely Ndora, Musha, Mamba, Gikonko, Gishubi and Muganza gathered at Groupe Scholaire Philipe Nelly GISAGARA.

RUKUNDO Noel, Coordinator for the National Youth Council in Gisagara District and MUKANDANGA Velentine program manager at Kansi site say that girls and boys are given lessons that prepare them to become good future leaders.

Also students are given time to sit sector by sector and learn on the problems and decide on what should be done to solve problems in their sectors. Once a week Intore are given time to participate in country building through building houses for genocide survivors and the poor in that area.

The purpose of doing different activities is because their performance plans according to the problems that prevail in the sectors of origin will be presented at the end of the Itorero.

KAMANZI James, intore at Gisagara site says they have learnt a lot from Itorero for example fighting against Aids, good governance, job creation and project starting, their role in promoting education, and their role in development basing on the houses they built in Bweyeye cell in Ndora sector.

MAZIMPAKA Jean Pierre, intore at Kansi site says that things are good generally but wish that next time materials be there first before the students come for example they don’t have balls for playing. He also requested that inter site football matches and other sports be arranged which will help intore students know their fellows.

Intore have built 4 houses, planted 200 coffee trees and carried 600 bricks to the site for the construction of primary school at Kansi.

 Clarisse Umuhire