She was a Tutsi nurse and anaesthetist working at a hospital in Kigali . She fled to Belgium during the Rwandan genocide ; her husband , her children and many of the people she knew were killed . In Belgium , her qualifications were not recognized so she worked in a senior 's residence . She later adopted some of her nieces whose parents had been killed and other Rwandan orphans
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Yolande Mukagasana