St. Ignatius School, Kigali 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 funds from abroad, with a major benefactor being the Grace Foundation which was founded to support Jesuit schools in Rwanda. In the wake of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the Jesuits determined to use education to help build a prosperous, peaceful, and harmonious future. In 2003, they received seven hectares of land in the heart of Kigali, the capital, where they began construction of St.
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