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RISING FROM ASHES COMES TO NOTTINGHAM BROADWAY
- By Laura Blackie
Rising from Ashes, a feature
length documentary about two
worlds colliding when cycling
legend Jock Boyer moves to
Rwanda to help a group of strug-
gling genocide survivors pursue
their dream of a national team,
was recently screened in Not-
tingham’s Broadway cinema.
The film was followed by a Q&A session
with guest speakers Eric Murangwa, sur-
vivor and founder of Football for Hope
Peace and Unity, and Jeremy Ford, the
marketing and communications officer
at Team Rwanda UK.
The screening was organised by
the Rwandan Stories of Change
Project at the University of Not-
tingham to coincide with the
22nd anniversary of the Geno-
cide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
The team members are Nicki Hitchcott, Stephen Joseph
and Laura Blackie. The screening was organised. Eric is a former international football
player from Rwanda and a survivor of
the 1994 genocide. Eric lost 35 members
of his family. It was Eric’s former team
members who risked their lives to keep
him safe. Understanding the power
sport can have in nurturing friendship
and commitment between people, Eric
formed “Football for Hope Peace and
Unity” in 2010 – which aims to promote peace and rec-
onciliation in Rwanda and in the UK.
In April 1994, around a million Rwandan people were Jeremy is the UK Marketing and Development Officer
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