View our video- 'A Beacon of Hope' from the opening celebration of The Maranyundo School, in February of 2008.

The First Lady, Mrs. Jeannette Kagame, on Sunday attended as a guest of honour, a fundraising dinner for both the Maranyundo Initiative and Partners in Health, organizations that work in Rwanda. The dinner was organized by the Ruettgers family at their residence in Boston.

NYAMATA, Rwanda - The African sun high overhead, drummers pound out a welcome as two chartered buses pull up to the school, 40 minutes south of Kigali. Out step two dozen women from the Boston area, some accompanied by their husbands, a few with their adult children in tow.

BUGESERA — The First Lady Jeannette Kagame has implored parents across the country to embrace education to build the human resource capacity.

The First Lady told the audience that the precious resource Rwanda has is its people.

"Our precious resource is our people. Our aim is to invest in capacity building," she said. She was yesterday commissioning the new and modern girls’ school in Bugesera district— Maranyundo Girls’ Secondary School. The school was built by Maranyundo Initiative Project.

BUGESERA — The First Lady Jeannette Kagame will this Thursday commission the newly constructed Maranyundo Girls’ School in Bugesera district, a school official said.

The executive director of Maranyundo Initiative, the project that spearheaded the construction, Jennifer Boyle told The New Times yesterday, that their project is dedicated to the continued improvement of the quality of education in Rwanda.

It’s a long way from South Boston to Rwanda.

But for 60 Hub residents who are there to celebrate the opening of a new girls boarding school this week, it was a journey that started years ago when an activist nun showed a Rwandan governor a thriving after-school program in a former convent off of E Street.