Rwanda: New Project to Protect Children With Disability

Handicap International, a disability movement, launched a project dubbed "Ubuntu Care Project" to confront sexual violence against children with disabilities.

The project, launched yesterday in Kigali, is a response to a research conducted in 2010 in Burundi, Madagascar, Mozambique and Tanzania, which shows that children with disabilities are four times sexually violated compared to their normal counterparts.

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