Woman crossing a makeshift bridge over a small river - Rwanda. © Andy Johnstone (Panos)
At the end of 1994, following eight years of economic collapse, four years of conflict and three months of genocide, Rwanda’s infrastructure had been destroyed, 1 million Rwandans were dead and nearly 3 million were refugees. Although considerable progress has been made since then, an estimated 60% of Rwanda’s population still lives below the national poverty line.