Community facilitators in Rwanda will learn to facilitate a deeper dialogue, with profound impact on processes of recovery and reconciliation among perpetrators and survivors of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, and prevention of future violence. Operating in 6 Districts, this initiative focuses on youth and women facilitators, because of their passionate and vital role in supporting recovery and violence prevention within their communities, districts and country.
Although Rwanda has made extraordinary progress since the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, deep consequences include intergenerational trauma. Youth comprise 75% of the population and many lack awareness of their family's and nation's history. There are tensions between offspring of survivors and perpetrators, and those ostracized for being born from rape. Youth are also calling for gender awareness, and are passionate about contributing to reconciliation and violence prevention for their future.
CFOR was invited by GER, a local NGO in Rwanda, to support the country's reconciliation process. We have worked in close partnership since 2016. Our current program provides training for 90 community facilitators in 6 districts, emphasizing the significant role of youth and women. Trainees will gain skills to carefully facilitate sensitive and essential dialogue for community recovery and violence prevention, and facilitate reconciliation in their communities.
Our program reaches marginalized groups and honors the vital role of youth and women facilitators in building the future. Local and national authorities, as well as trainees, are passionate about the impact of this work at personal, interpersonal, family and societal levels in 6 districts and beyond. This transformational work is shared across Rwanda, and is inspiring facilitators in other countries about how to grapple with historic injustice and collective trauma, and find pathways forward.
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