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What we do

PeacEdu Initiative Rwanda is a non-governmental organization that is engaged and dedicated to preventing genocide and mass atrocities through Education.We are empowering our community with a non-violent means of resolving conflict, building trust and promoting trauma healing. We also have a village of reconciliation where we were able to unify former perpatrotors and survivors who now live together in the same village. PeacEdu is more focused on healing the wounds caused by the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The organization is working with the community which is comprised of genocide survivors and former perpetrators who confessed their role during genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. We also work with teachers , youth students and non-schooling youth who are in different clubs affiliated to the organization.The organization’s activities in the community include peace building, healing and storytelling, forgiveness, resilience, reconciliation and improving the social-economic conditions of the community we serve. The organization works with the youth where we equip them with the knowledge to enhance their critical thinking skills, empathy and personal responsibility to reject violence. The youth is trained about Human Rights Education in order to be human rights defenders where they live and become a positive change in their respective community.

OUR PILLARS

1.PEACEBUILDING

We are empowering our community with non-violent means of resolving conflict, building trust and promoting trauma healing and genocide prevention.

Through the Peacebuilding pillar, we have a village of reconciliation where we were able to unify the former perpetrators who confessed their role in genocide against the Tutsi and the Survivors with a purpose of healing the wounds caused by such a horrific event. This helps us in bringing about reconciliation, forgiveness and social cohesion. We also equip them with principles and values of peace education through critical thinking. We create and facilitate spaces for peace to bring together youth and community members from diverse backgrounds to discuss their traumatic sensitive issues in order to support each other in the healing process through dialogue, healing and storytelling. We host different university students, researchers and any other people who want to learn about the power of forgiveness and reconciliation from different parts of the world.

OUR approach

We use different approaches like dialogues, training, workshops, and participatory methods such as critical thinking. Peacedu has been working with the renowned organization to foster important approaches and methodologies that enhance higher critical thinking using different examples and inspiration. Through our education approaches, it is expected that young people that we work together on the daily basis will be able to make right and informed decisions with the overall goal of fostering harmony among Rwandan citizens. They will also be able to identify some challenges that grip them on a daily basis so that they can be in the right decision to confidently address those using collaborative efforts.

Trips and workshops

Peacedu organizes trips for students' club and community that is compromised of genocide survivors and perpetrators who confessed their role in Genocide against the Tutsi members as well as parents to different genocide memorials across the country. The trips and workshops help them to acquire knowledge about genocide prevention. Parents are always urged to instill skills of critical thinking into their young minds because they are the cornerstone for the hope of Rwanda. We also facilitate communities to heal their wounds caused by genocide through storytelling. Therefore, they may become more confident in teaching such sensitive topics

Trainings in Refugee Camps

SOCIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

PeacEdu Initiative Rwanda believes that the community members must increase means of securing the necessities of life, therefore they will have to enhance their resiliency, improved their overall well-being for themselves and for future generations. The concept of livelihood as a right is protected by Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 25, which states that “You have the right to an adequate standard of living. This means having whatever you need so that you and your family: do not fall ill; do not go hungry; and have clothes and a place to live.” Similarly, the right to work is protected in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights article 6 and 7.

Through this thematic area, PeacEdu will make ensure these rights are protected. The concept of it aligns with Sustainable Development Goal 8: “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth.”

It is in that context that PeacEdu Initiative Rwanda’s well-being of their community member is of a vital role. The construction of the kitchen garden for family’s protection against mal-nutrition related diseases together with the provision of free health insurance have been put forward by peacEdu to facilitate its community members from poor families accessing free health care.

PeacEdu Initiative Rwanda also embarks on creating saving and lending groups for the better of the community to form income generating activities in their cooperatives. Also, for community members to live in better conditions, houses are renovated and livestock are provided.

On the other hand, youth club members affiliated to our organization are equipped with scholastic materials to allow them a chance of accessing easily Education. With all of these, the preaching of peace cannot be separated with the well-being and development of community members.

Research

Peacedu Initiative Rwanda is committed to documentation and preservation of stories in a digital way for research purposes. We are also planning to conduct researches on the impact of peace education in the aftermath of the genocide and encourage local and foreign researchers to conduct research on this important topic. This will also help the next generation to find rich information about the history of the Genocide against the Tutsis, the Holocaust, and other genocides that took place all over the world hence, cementing world peace and encourage critical thinking and clear interpretation of the history through accessing these stories.

VALUES

Integrity

Al Peacedu staff and beneficiaries adhere to pursue honorable initiatives, and must conduct day-to-day operations in a way that is honest, transparent and ethical

Excellence

Peacedu staff are not only pursuing something important, but are doing it well. This means that the senior management of Peacedu cultivate and train staff. They always set tangible benchmarks for the organization, and they struggle to succeed them.

Community

PeacEdu staff believes that in order to be successful, it is always important to collaborate with other agencies and partners in their community both at the national and international levels. PeacEdu believes that they will accomplish more if they attempt to complement the existing resources available in the community rather than duplicating them.

Good Stewardship

Peacedu doesn’t have extensive resources, but always believe that using their core values as an opportunity to demonstrate that they are a good steward of the resources bequeathed to the organization. Peacedu staff always show that they make a good return on the resources available to the organization. This is a good opportunity to set standards for financial procedures and internal controls.