Rwanda…. Fina Bank is pleased to announce a substantial sponsorship of TEAM RWANDA, the Rwanda National Cycling Team which will run until the end of 2010 with an option to renew.
At any given pro bike race, there are hundreds of hard-life stories that line up at the start every day. The story of Adrien Niyonshuti (MTN-Energade), however, is unusual among them.
Coming from Rwanda, where six of his brothers were killed in the 1994 genocide, Niyonshuti got a pro contract for this year after winning the 2008 Tour of Rwanda.
Now Niyonshuti is about to start his first pro European event at the Tour of Ireland.
Here is this morning in front of 90 accredited press agencies..and television crews from around the world... Lance asked Adrien to be with him at the start.. this was not a "posed" photo.. it was by Lance's request when he heard Adrien's story and what the MTN team is doing in African for African riders... Lance wants Adrien to succeed.
Adrien Niyonshuti celebrates winning the Tour of Rwanda in September last year. Despite dreaming of one day competing in the Tour de France, Niyonshuti still loves competing on his home Tour. Courtesy of Sarah Pedersen
Last week, Team Rwanda paid a special visit to the ‘Centre for Champions’ campus in Rwamagana, to speak to former street children and provide them some words of hope.
Run by the African Evangelical Enterprise (AEE), the center supports up to 300 street kids and 300 kids from impoverished homes in the local community. The center offers physical, emotional, and spiritual support as well as life skills. However its main function is that of a school where the teenagers get a chance to catch up on what they have missed and give them the capacity to enter university.
Rwanda…. Fina Bank is pleased to announce a substantial sponsorship of TEAM RWANDA, the Rwanda National Cycling Team which will run until the end of 2010 with an option to renew.
