In this BBC Sport Africa documentary our Founder and CEO, Eric Murangwa Eugene recalls how his life was saved thanks to the support and help he received from his teammates and fans of his former football club, Rayon Sports. The documentary is also an opportunity to raise awareness of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and talk about the work we (Ishami Foundation) are doing bringing people together to build social cohesion through sport and storytelling in Rwanda in the hope of avoiding such conflict in future.

P.S: The BBC term ‘Rwandan Genocide’ to describe what happened in Rwanda is incorrect. When talking or discussing about the 1994 events in Rwanda, we encourage you to use the terminology “The 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda” as stated by UN General Assembly Resolution A/72/L.31 of 26th January 2018. Thank you.

This video was produced as part of Ishami Foundation 25 Schools For Kwibuka25 workshop and commemoration event to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda at City Hall in London on May 9th 2019. The video highlights key speeches by the High Commissioner of the Republic of Rwanda in the UK HE Yamina Karitanyi, the Mayor of London Mr Sadiq Khan, Survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Mrs Jo Ingabire Moys and other members of Ishami Foundation board of Trustees and Advisors.

This video was produced by Ishami Foundation Youth Trustee Joel Freedman to mark the 71st anniversary of the Genocide Convention on December 9th 2019. This Genocide Prevention Day we’re asking people to remember that genocide is not over. Survivors still feel the effects. And groups continue to be targeted because of their identity in Darfur, Syria, Myanmar and beyond. Please join genocide survivors in reminding all of us of the ongoing need to take action.

Eric Murangwa survived the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. He was one of the nations top footballers at the time. In 2010, Eric founded an organisation that uses Football and storytelling to build unity, tolerance and lasting peace in his homeland and beyond.

Ishami Foundation Co-founder and CEO Eric Murangwa Eugene speaking to the kids during soccer for social impact session in Nyanza – Rwanda. The footage is part of Soccer My Saviour documentary.

A testimony by Antoinette Mushimiyimana a Survivor of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda at Kwibuka24 and Kwibuka Rwanda Exhibition at the University of Oxford – April 21st 2018

held at Mansfield College and the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.
Read more about the event and the exhibition:
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/kwib…

Read more on the exhibition:
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/kwib…

A film featuring three survivors from Rwanda, Bosnia and the Holocaust. The film highlights the process of discrimination and dehumanisation which is common to all genocides. It is part of #FightHateWithRights campaign championed by Rights Info Charity.

A film inspired by the story of former Rwandan soccer player and Ishami founder Eric Murangwa Eugene. This is a trailer for the 30 minutes documentary, directed by Kyri Evangelou, following Eric’s incredible journey and explaining his commitment to use football to promote peace to future generations affected by conflict.

UK Commemorative Ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day 2017, including Eric Murangwa Eugene, lighting one of the candles of remembrance.

Young people on the IWM Moving Stories Summer School interview Rwandan survivor and Ishami founder Eric Murangwa Eugene about his experience of forced migration and displacement as a result of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Interview with Rwandan footballer and Ishami founder Eric Murangwa Eugene for the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace on April 6th. Eric takes viewers to Rwanda to see how sport has become a pillar to foster peace, reconcile communities and empower young Rwandans to build a positive future.

Twenty years after the genocide, Eric Murangwa Eugene the former goalkeeper of Rayon Sports and the National Football Team of Rwanda returns to his native country.

In association with former teammates who sheltered him during the 1994 genocide, Eugene created a football academy in Kigali. His involvement with the youth is prompted by his commitment to rebuild the bonds that were severed by decades of hatred.

At the image of Rwandan society, Eugene seeks to rethink the future by traversing the past. He undertakes a journey to meet survivors and former football players and hence confront the history of football that always entertained close ties with the colonial past of the country and the tragedy it underwent.

Confronted with history, and, for the first time, to the ceremonies commemorating the genocide, Eugene unveils himself little by little with modesty, aware of the difficulty of the task that awaits him.

“Football Rwanda, fields of memories” unveils the fragmented and “broken” memory of Rwandan football while at the same portraying Rwanda of today.