Rwanda's children have seen the worst of humanity. Ten years after a group of politicians set in motion a genocide in an attempt to kill all the Tutsis and erase them completely, the devastating consequences for those who were left behind are unmistakable.

Those who planned and executed the genocide of 1994 violated children's rights on an unprecedented scale. Children were raped, tortured, and slaughtered along with adults in massacre after massacre around the country.

Carrying their genocidal logic to its absurd conclusion, they even targeted children for killing — to exterminate the "big rats," they said, one must also kill the "little rats."

Countless thousands of children were murdered in the genocide and war.

Many of those who managed to escape death had feared for their own lives, surviving rape or torture, witnessing the killing of family members, hiding under corpses, or seeing children killing other children. Some of these children — now adolescents — say they do not care whether they live or die.

In 2001 Darius began sensing a call to return to Rwanda and rebuild the broken lives of the victims of the 1994 genocide where 1 million people died in 90 days. Preliminary work was done to purchase land and lay the foundation to build an orphanage, school, vocational training center and church.

A project — Project Hope for Rwanda — to help orphans and widows in Rwanda begun last year by International Hope for Rwanda serving in the war-torn country has raised toys, blankets, clothing and school supplies from our honored donors accross the US and elsewhere.

We are very grateful for your unceasing support for this project that aims at planting joy and a bunch of smiles in the little hearts of Rwanda's children. Your donations are doing a wonderful job of Jesus Christ.

We also thank president George W. Bush for his profound and heartfelt support to our project. He approved our work and honored Project Hope for Rwanda by welcoming Darius Twagirayesu's family. We shared dinner together and raised the glasses and clicked them with "To the Children of Rwanda".