IN 1994, RWANDA WAS IN CIVIL WAR. NEARLY 1 MILLION PEOPLE DIED IN THIS ATTEMPTED GENOCIDE. TODAY, RWANDA IS BATTLING POVERTY, AND ITS CURRENT PRESIDENT WANTS ADVICE ON WANT TO DO ABOUT IT... (pls keep a look out for the next part...)
PART 3
President, you are a unique man because you see education as even a higher priority and asset for our countrymen and women than the military. This notion must be nurtured. Incentives should be put in place for young people to finish high school and continue their education to college. Perhaps scholarships and/or parties involving a concert by winners of the RR Talent Scout and other international stars. College students should be given similar incentives to continue there education to a post secondary and doctorate level. In addition, scholarships should be abundant and perhaps even guaranteed for students who further their education in Rwanda. Your Excellency should institute a program where those that go into business studies or plan to become a business owner will receive even more tuition breaks, this will encourage people to start small business which is defiantly the cornerstone of a strong economy. I suggest that surrounding countries join Rwanda and start a program so that any students that attends the universities in this Coalition of Education (COE) provide guaranteed scholarships, internships, and jobs for those who complete a business degree and make efforts to become business owners. Perhaps these incentives should be extended to those who complete a medical or law degree and build a practice in Rwanda. It is important that we stress the benefits of students staying and using their education in their home country as opposed to building up a foreign land. The latter is still a noble venture, but we must encourage the reconstruction of Rwanda.
Also, in the ways of education, college is not a goal for everyone, so incentives should be placed for those interested in certificate, diploma, and trade programs, such as cosmetology, and mechanics. It will also be in our best interests to give incentives for young people who are interested in building up our local commodities. Those interested in learning how to harvest coffee, tea, animal hies, and tin ore should all get assistance with furthering their education of those exports. Emphasis should be placed on culture training. While many Rwandans in the public sector already know what is going on the world, many Rwandans in the private sector do not. This should change immediately, and the whole of our people should be more culturally and technologically minded. Also, those who study abroad but choose to come back to Rwanda to build up this country should be given breaks on starting businesses, opening medical or law practices, and tax breaks.
There are lots of things to do in order to bring about development, tourism, and free trade to Rwanda. Those of all ages in the penal system should be made to build roads, clean universities, construct houses and buildings, and so forth. This will make those who are rehabilitating themselves, look forward to becoming constructive citizens in a new Rwanda that they are helping to build! Perhaps some of the Museum of War Stories construction labor can be provided by juveniles and adults in the corrections system. However, inmate services should only be commissioned if we find ourselves in a position that does not allow us to pay proper employees to carry out this work. I would love to be able to say that we could use this as an opportunity to add more jobs into our fighting economy, but we must allow ourselves some breathing room in the ways of funding. It's most prudent to expect we will need to use some labor forces that we do not have to pay. This is not exploitative of the inmates because they will be helping to rebuild the society they have offended, and thus making a way for themselves in the future.
(HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT USING INMATES AS FREE LABOUR? DO YOU THINK THIS IDEAS COULD PULL A COUNTRY OUT OF POVERTY? PLS LOOK OUT FOR THE NEXT PART...)
