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 three administrative districts—Nyarugenge, which lies in the south west, Kicukiro in the south east, and Gasabo, which occupies the northern half of the city's territory. Kigali lies in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. Kigali lies between the two mountains of Mount Kigali and Mount Jali, both of which have altitudes over , while the lowest areas of the city have an altitude of . Geologically, the city lies in a granitic and metasedimentary region, with lateritic soils on the hills and alluvial soils in the valleys. The Nyabarongo River,