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 it remained a relatively small city until the 1970s due to government policies restricting rural-to-urban migration. The population reached 115,000 by 1978, and 235,000 by 1991. The city lost a large fraction of its population during the 1994 genocide, including those killed and those who fled to neighbouring countries. From 1995, however, the economy began to recover and large numbers of long-term Tutsi refugees returned from Uganda. Many of these refugees settled in Kigali and other urban areas, due to difficulty in obtaining land in other parts of the country. This phenomenon, coupled with a high birth rate and increased