Today morning at Kacyiru, a woman discovered a young boy she had denied shelter three days ago hidden in the kitchen store of their home.
The housemaid of the residence was secretly hiding him in the store till he could save up enough cash to take the boy to his home at gisozi where the boy would live with him and his wife.
The boy indentified as Mukahirwa Janvier was found in the storeroom of a family home early this morning.
Nizeyimana Celestin the housemaid who secretly hid Mukahirwa in the kitchen store for three days, had forgotten to lock the store room when the house owner entered the store to pick something only to find the boy sleeping on the floor.
Mukahirwa was recognised by the master as the boy she recently denied shelter. She presumed he was a thief and threatened to call the police.
However, Nizeyimana defended himself explaining why he had hidden the boy, after begging the woman for forgiveness he promised to take the boy to his home today after he has finished his daily chores.
Nizeyimana claims to have found Mukahirwa crying outside a resident’s house where he had spent the previous evening begging the owners to give him shelter.
The housemaid Nizeyimana who was sheltering the boy said he found the boy sleeping outside the gate as he was exiting the house to go buy groceries and found the boy crying and shivering.
Mukahirwa 11 is an orphan who recently lost his parents and has never been to school.
His father was a seamstress at the local market in the Kacyiru district and his mother was a vendor whom worked in various districts, he’s parents had been sick for quite a while until he found his mother dead and his father dead only a week later.
Mukahirwa had been told by the landlord to go to the police where they will tell him where to go but refused him to stay, the landlord took all the belonging telling Mukahirwa that was what they would use as payment for the rent money his parents had not paid for over the last two months.
Muhirwa told Nizeimana that he had walked around the whole of Kacyiru asking for help from the people his father knew but everyone turned him away and he started begging from local residents until he ended up on Nizeimana’s door step.
Nizeimana said the reason he had taken pity on the boy is because he had experienced a similar situation when he was a boy and he knew he had to help this boy. When Muhirwa told Nizeimana that his bosses had refused to let him in, Nizeimana decided to sneak the boy in while his bosses were sleeping.
He created a small bed of blankets where Muhirwa would sleep on at night and lock him in till morning after the bosses left. while he saved up the money to send the boy to his wife in Gismos where the boy would be adopted by him and his wife whom have no children of their own.
Nizeimana says he will take the boy tonight where he knows his wife will welcome the boy with open arms; the boy will be treated as though he was their own flesh and blood.