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 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