2005 Giraffe Hero Commendation, given to people who stick their necks out for the common good:
"Because of the film Hotel Rwanda, people all around the world now know the ghastly realities of what happened when violence erupted between ethnic Hutus and Tutsis in both Rwanda and its neighbor, Burundi.
Giraffe commendee Prosper Ndabishuriye of Burundi is one of the great heroes to emerge from the years following those horrors, standing for peace and unity in spite of others' certainty that Hutu and Tutsi could never be allies...."
