Dr Innocent Mugisha (L), Chairman of MKU Rwanda Governing Council, receives the Mace from MKU Founder Prof Simon Gicharu during the Mount Kigali University handover ceremony. September 17, 2023. [File, Standard]
Prof Simon Gicharu, founder and chairman of MKU, commended the Foundation for its efforts in ensuring access to education for disadvantaged children. He was speaking last week during a tour of one of the ECD centres in Rwanda.
"By contributing to the construction of the ECD Model Class, we are investing in the future of Rwanda's children, providing them with the opportunity to receive quality education from the earliest stages of life," he said. "We remain committed to supporting education, and this contribution is only one part of our long-term strategy to make a lasting impact on the ECD model and look forward to more initiatives." He emphasised the importance of ECD in preparing children for future academic stages, including university education.
"We are in the process of operationalising the centre and are currently onboarding qualified teachers. By September, the centre will be fully functional," said Elodie Shami, Director General of Imbuto Foundation, when the team visited the ECD centre located in Masaka, Kicukiro District, Kigali.