Gift of 200 cows to Rwanda by Modi Government
Gift of 200 cows was to villagers at Rweru Model Village, as part of the Rwandan Government’s GIRINKA PROGRAMME. Rwanda Government’s GIRINKA programme was started in 2006 in response to the alarmingly high rate of childhood malnutrition and as a way to accelerate poverty reduction and integrate livestock and crop farming. The programme , initiated by President Paul Kagame is based on the premise that providing a dairy cow to Rwanda’s poor citizens transforms livelihoods, reconciles communities improving agricultural productivity through the use of manure as fertilizers. It is also a part of a strategy to rebuild the national cattle herd from an insignificant level after the 1994 genocide during which over 80% of cattle were decimated. The worst part of the genocide was that more than 8 lacs mostly the minority Tutsis were slaughtered by the majority Hutu extremists within 100 days with impunity. Peace was restored in July 1994 with accords between two warring e