"The genocide changed my personality and my way of thinking. It changed everything for me. I don't trust people at all. In Rwanda before the genocide, our neighbours were very friendly. But it's them who killed my family."

In 1990 the Rwandan Patriotic Liberation Front became more active in Rwanda. The government wanted to mobilise the population against them, saying it was a Tutsi organisation, although realistically it was mixed.

Chantal's mum, a Tutsi schoolteacher, who taught French and Kirwanda, used to tell her about how her grandfather was killed by Hutu soldiers in 1959, but it didn't feel real until one night soldiers came for her own parents. Whilst still dressed in night clothes her mother was beaten with big plastic whips and taken to prison 1930 in Kigali. Chantal's dad was outside the country and her older sister was at boarding school, leaving Chantal alone.

After six months her mother was released and her father returned, but things kept getting worse. In 1992, 50,000 Tutsis living in Gisenji were butchered to death with machetes. Then they started to kill Tutsi children at boarding schools, which was a great concern for her parents.

It wasn't until January 1994, however, that the killings really started in Kigali and on 6 April the government declared openly that Hutus should kill Tutsis.

"Imagine someone comes and kills your sisters and kills your mother and father behind you. My father and my little sister were shot in front of me. My other sister and two brothers were also shot. My mother and I hid with a cousin, then after my father was buried we left the area because the Interahamwe (Hutu extremists) wanted to rape all the Tutsi girls".

A Jehovah's witness friend who was a Hutu tried to save Chantal by hiding her at his house, but the Interahamwe, armed with clubs, found her. With other children Chantal was taken into the Bush to be shot. "I was there with a mother and her child and as they started shooting at us I fell into a pit full of corpses. I was wounded but after the Hutus left I managed to climb out."

Chantal was rescued by the French army, and brought to the UK to receive support from the Foundation.

"I was going to study electronics. I was good at it and my father encouraged me, but now that's all gone. In my country we have this culture, even when you are hungry, you're not supposed to tell anyone you're hungry. You just try to be smart, wear nice clothes, and show people you are happy when inside you are dead already. So that's what I'm doing now."