After being a Chairperson at CSW 56  (Conference on Status of Women) at UN on the theme of “The Empowerment of Women During and After Conflict Situation: Afghanistan and Rwanda, with  Professor  Shirley Randell AO, PhD the Lecture organized by Rwanda Association of University Women, Friday March 2rd,2012

Marie Claudine Mukamabano,The Chairperson at CSW (Conference on Status of Women) at UN with Professor Shirley Randell AO, PhD , photo by IZUMI YAMASHITA (member of AFUW in Japan; Association of University Women in JAPAN)

 as well as  sharing her knowledge/expertise  about Successful Grassroots Model in Empowering Women of African Descent organized by World Mission Foundation(Crusaders Against AIDS) & GILEAD (Advancing Therapeutics& Improving lives)on March 5 at UN,

March 8, International Women’s Day at the United Nations in New York City, Marie Claudine MUKAMABANO is marching, filming, dancing as well as drumming with other women from around the world photo by IZUMI YAMASHITA (member of AFUW in Japan; The Association of University Women in JAPAN)

  Miss Marie Claudine Mukamabano, was invited to speak  both places at St. Marc Church this coming   Sunday, March 25 on Theme “ The impact of women around the world”  and the March 24th in New York on the Theme “Overcome the trauma &  The Successful Model of  how to Heal the wounded heart” 

Humura wowe wacitse ku icumu turikumwe, mwana w’u Rwanda HUMURA NTURI WENYINE. Twibuke Genocide yakorewe Abatutsi , turushaho gufatanya muguhangana n’IHUNGABANA. Icyizere cy’ejo hazaza kidutere kwiyumvamo ubutwali n’ishyaka bityo duharanire kugera ikirenge mucy’abacu badusize tuzirikana ubutwali n’ishyaka byabarangaga bityo duharanire kutazabataba munama tubereka ko batasize ibigwali. Dukomeze kugira Icyunamo gihire. Imana ikomeze iduhe kwibuka uburyo yaturinze tuyishimire ineza yayo. Amen

“Genocide yakorewe ABATUTSI mu Rwanda, yasize ibikomere mu Mitima ya benshi , bakeneye kuruhuka INTIMBA ibagoye, Twibuke twese tubakomeze Umutima”
Thank you so very much for your healing message to the survivors of Rwandan genocide, my Dear Munyanshoza Dieu Donne. I’m thankful to HAVE YOU in our beautiful country Rwanda.
May God continue to bless you as well as your Fellow Rwandan Artists.

Yours in Peace,
Marie Claudine Mukamabano
Rwandan genocide orphan-survivor & Rwandan Artistic Director-Creator & the Founder/Chief Executive Office of Why do I exist? KUKI NDIHO RWANDA ORPHANS SUPPORT PROJECT a Humanitarian efforts for our Children,dedicated to education,physical, emotional, psychological,financial,spiritual healing and a well being of Rwandan orphans because of genocide & HIV/AIDS.
www.whydoiexist.org
Tel : 347 465 4045
E-mail: claudinepeace@gmail.com

Meeting date:  Thursday, April 19, 2012

 HIGH-POWERED DELEGATION FROM THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION TO MEET WITH LEADERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK MAYORS  IN NEW YORK

at the  African Hall of the Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union to the United Nations,

305 East 47th Street, New York, NY.

 The African Union Commission delegation will be led by His Excellency Ambassador Erastus Mwencha, Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission, and Dr. Jinmi Adisa, Director of the Citizens and Diaspora Directorate of AUC (CIDO). The two African Union Ambassadors in the United States, His Excellency Ambassador Tete Antonio of the AU Permanent Observer Mission to the UN, and Her Excellency Ambassador Amina Salum Ali of AU Permanent Representative Office to Washington, DC, would also be attending.

The National Conference of Black Mayors, will be led by its President, Hon. Mayor Robert Bowser of East Orange, New Jersey, as well as the Executive Director Ms. Vanessa Williams.

 About 40 Mayors out of the 682 Black Mayors in the country are expected to attend the meeting. The Black Mayors conference has increasingly been playing a major role in Africa, including their recent World Summit of Mayors meeting in Senegal in December, 2011.

 The high-powered meeting is a preparatory meeting to the African Union Global Diaspora Summit on Africa Day, May 25, 2012, in South Africa, to be attended by the Heads of State of the 54 countries that make up the African Union, Presidents and Prime Ministers from the Caribbean countries, as well as Presidents from South America with a sizable percentage of Afro-descendants.

The 17th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union took a significant and dramatic step by deciding to convene the Global African Diaspora Summit on African Day on 25 May 2012 in South African on the Global African Diaspora Process.

 The decision marked the climax of a protracted consultation process between the African continent and its Diaspora on the goal, content, objectives and implementation strategy of the Diaspora process.

The Decision facilitated the convening of a Ministerial meeting in New York on 24 September 2011 to review the outcomes of a previous Technical Experts meeting as well as the Summit documents of 2007 and consolidate them into a Draft Declaration, Program of Action and Implementation Strategy for the consideration of the leaders of Africa and its Diaspora in the Summit of May 2012. The consolidated outcome documents would then serve as a basic law guiding the program and its effective implementation.

 The First Extra-Extra Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union held in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia, in January 2003 adopted a Protocol on Amendment to the Constitutive Act which invited the African Diaspora to participate in the building and development of the Union and the continent as a symbolic 6th Region of Africa, and it is with this in view, that it wants to establish a working relationship with the National Conference of Black Mayors in establishing a grassroots agenda and platform of elected Diaspora leaders in the US to support and work within the framework of the Diaspora Summit agenda.