Barcelona president to visit Rwanda refugee camps

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MADRID, Feb 25, 2010 (AFP) - Barcelona president Joan Laporta will next week visit refugee camps in Rwanda which the club's foundation and the UN have been financing for the past two years.

Laporta will visit the camps at Gihembe, Kiziba, Nyabiheke, which are home to a combined population of over 35,000 people, on Wednesday and Thursday, the European champions announced on their web site.

Barcelona said their charitable foundation had constructed sports facilities and care centres and helped train teachers at the camps.

"Laporta and his companions will be visiting camps hosting refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, created as a result of the conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups," the club said in a statement.