“A child is a gift from God to its parents, a precious companion to its brothers and sisters, a continuity of its family, and the future of its country.  This beautiful human being, cherished and fragile, should be protected and grow up in an environment that is favorable to its moral, intellectual, and physical development.  In many countries, and above all in the poorest of them, the majority of the children will never have known this blossoming, which is nevertheless their full right.” 

Rwandan government official