Following the collapse of an earlier planned trip by Hotel heiress Paris Hilton to Rwanda, UK-based Aegis Trust announced on Friday that it has stepped in to rescue the visit.
The heiress's original plans with the 'Playing for Good' charity were sunk after a restructuring of the organization led to cancellation. The organization said the much hyped trip would be moved to a later date.
Now she has been invited by Aegis to see first hand the suffering caused by the 1994 genocide, which saw one million Tutsi and moderate Hutus murdered in 1994, the joint statement from Kigali Memorial Center and the British organization said.
The Kigali Memorial Centre is modeled in approach on the UK Holocaust Centre, where Aegis is based. Aegis works in Rwanda to provide dignified remembrance for the victims of genocide, support for survivors and education to help prevent future acts of genocide.
"We decided to invite her as her previous arrangements to visit had fallen through", Mr. Craig Cowbrough from Aegis told RNA in separate interview.
He added: "Our reasoning being that it is important that as many high profile people as possible should come and learn from Rwanda's experience to help avoid similar catastrophes elsewhere and also to educate the wider world about how the country has changed since 1994 and what some of the issues are that still need to be resolved."
Earlier this month, the millionaire hotel heiress turned TV personality said in an interview in Newsweek magazine that she hoped to shed her party-girl image and leave a mark on the world. The Rwanda trip was to be a first step on that journey.
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