Curiosity Question: How do Rwandans greet one another?

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Well, although greeting one another by a kiss is slowly cropping into cities, people living in villages hug one another instead.

The gentleman with a tie is the headmaster of 2 schools owned by the Methodist Church a bit distant from Bugarama, namely Ryankana and Kibangira.

In 2007, his national pass rate was 5 out of 31 for Ryankana and 5 out of 39 for Kibangira. The primary school owned by Moslim, which I attended, had 4 out of 125.

This rather lovely gentleman has been over the phone on numerous occasion advocating for the changes taking place at Mihabula Primary School to be expanded to his school.

Back to the point: this is how a complete hug looks like. It doesn't matter whether it is between males or females.

Lastly, suffice it to say there are more remote schools where poverty is "worse" than in Mihabura.

The reasons why the Mihabula school and Church owning it were chosen as pilot as well as the strategy for expansion to other schools will be unravelled soon.

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