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We Remember Them

Monday, April 8th, 2013 - 02:10 pm

Claudette Muteteli, left, a native Rwandan, and friend Kellisha Decarlo react while watching a documentary about genocide in Rwanda during the 19th Commemoration of Genocide against the Tutsi on Sunday. Muteteli is the only one of her nine immediate family members who escaped the genocide of 1994 that killed more than 800,000 Tutsis. Courtesy Portland Press Herald/Carl D. Walsh

During this 19th anniversary commemoration period of the Rwanda genocide, which began on April 6, 1994, we remember the victims, hundreds of thousands of Tutsis slaughtered alongside tens of thousands of pacifist Hutus. To honor the survivors and remember the victims we shared our documentary film, Coexist at a commemoration event in Portland, Maine on Sunday, April 7th. This is a newspaper article on the event.

Daniel Bizimana, 10 whispers something to his mother Francoise Nsengiyumva during the 19th Commemoration of Genocide against the Tutsi, at Portland High School on Sunday April 7, 2013. Francoise, Rwandan born, came to the US at the height of the Genocide in her country in 1994. Courtesy Carl D. Walsh/Portland Press Herald Photographer

Coexist is a documentary and educational outreach project in use by more than 3,000 schools and community organizations in 50 states and more than a dozen countries. Our project includes a 40-minute film on the challenges of reconciliation in Rwanda after genocide and a four-lesson Teacher’s Guide, which can be used in the classroom and in support of positive school climate campaigns, to counter bullying, and to encourage positive choices to prevent violence.

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How Coexist is working in Schools

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Read about what happens in classrooms where we teach Coexist: a link to one example

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