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Rutendo is eleven years old, She has just migrated to South Africa with her Rwandan family from France. Her dad works for World Health Organisation and was promoted to head the Sourthern Africa Regional Office, from France where he was Deputy country officer.

Rutendo's home language is Rundi, which is not very fluent at. Her family speak French at home and she was learning at a French-medium school in France. Her relocation to South Africa meant that either she could be home schooled or be enrolled at an English-medium school, the latter was chosen.

Rutendo is a lovely and very cheerful girl. She enjoys meeting new friends. She loves school but now she has to learn English to understand all subjects at the new school. Her dad bought her a a mini laptop which could help her with homework, but what of classwork and interaction with new friends. Her tenth birthday present was a Samsung Omnia W from her mum.