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Jean Claude Muhire
Founder and Executive President , Love the Kids Rwanda Foundation
Rwanda

Jean Claude  Muhire is the Founder  and Executive President of Love the Kids Rwanda Organization, a registered non-profit, child rights and youth-led organization working to provide access to quality education and information, promote community acceptance, and improve better childhood development for the poor, mistreated, abandoned, orphans and former street children in Rwanda. 

As a best-known servant leader and humanitarian activist, Jean Claude has demonstrated a strong commitment to advocating for a social positive change by supporting less fortunate children to access quality education, and by using his stories to break the silence and fight against sexual violence perpetrated against young women and girls in Rwanda.  He is a published author of I LEAVE YOU TODAY, producer of LIZA film, certified peer educator, gender equality advocate and mentor.  Jean Claude has received several recognitions for his work including being: Honorary citizen of Boone in North Carolina, Laureate of French Government's 2019 Human Rights Prize,  Africa Youth Awards 2016 Winner for Leader of the Year, International Winner of the 2015 Global Dialogues contest, 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, and more. He is driven by a motto: "Live to achieve."