St. Ignatius School, Kigali school, and is headmaster. He barely escaped the genocide that claimed seven in his family; he had just left for Jesuit studies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the time. Volunteers have included nine students from Mercer Island, Washington, who helped build a classroom at St. Ignatius in 2011. They note that Hutus and Tutsis of all backgrounds are integrated into the school. St. Ignatius School, Kigali St. Ignatius School, Rwanda, was founded by the Society of Jesus in the capital city Kigali in 2006. It is coeducational and includes kindergarten through high school. It relies heavily on
Kigali new independent nation, but Kigali was chosen because of its more central location. The city grew slowly during the following decades, but retained a small-town feel, with just 25,000 people and five paved roads by the early 1970s. On 6 July 1973 there was a bloodless military coup, in which minister of defence Juvénal Habyarimana overthrew ruling president Gregoire Kayibanda. Businesses closed for a few days, and troops patrolled across the city, but life had returned to normal and the army had left the streets by 11 July. In April 1994 President Habyarimana was assassinated, when his plane was shot