Your donation today can change lives and save lives. Here’s how.
$30 puts one young person through peace education at the Kigali Genocide Memorial.
“You learn to ask, how do we avoid another genocide happening? You learn it’s not only an event in the past but a probability in the future if you don’t contribute to prevention.”
$100 funds one participant through our peace building program in the Central African Republic.
“I was still planning revenge when I joined an Aegis peace training programme. After we went through trauma healing and the forgiveness exercise, I had given up my desire for revenge. That night I was able to sleep again.”
$250 helps take a leader from a community in crisis through our Changemaker program.
“The chiefs went back to their villages and started telling people, “We can mobilise our young people to fight, and they lose their lives. Why don’t we mobilise them to go to school?” Lives have been saved.”
If you lived through the Genocide against the Tutsi, and you have experiences which you would like to record for the future – and/or artefacts you would like to donate – then please get in touch with the team at the Genocide Archive of Rwanda, which is located at the Kigali Genocide Memorial.
By becoming a friend of the Kigali Genocide Memorial and member of the Aegis Trust for Genocide Prevention, you’ll hear about all our special events (including those online) and be able to access all our courses and exclusive content for free.
Why not bring your friends with you to visit the Kigali Genocide Memorial? This powerful and important experience is one to share and discuss with others. Visiting together in person is ideal, but if that’s not possible, don’t forget the option of taking a virtual tour.
If you have visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial – either in person, or virtually – leave a message in our online guestbook to share your reflections with others.
Joining our mailing list is a great way to find out more about our history and work, and to stay up to date with news from the Memorial and Aegis Trust.
Every community is somewhere on the path to violence – and the path to peace. Where’s yours? Explore some relevant questions through this survey.
If you are interested in joining the team at the Aegis Trust, working at the Kigali Genocide Memorial or in other locations / countries, check here for vacancies.
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Our work depends on the fundraising of people like you. This short self-guided course will help you triple what you could fundraise without it. We’ll also add you to our mailing list, so you get great insights into our work which you can use when communicating with potential backers!
Shopping with social enterprises which support the Kigali Genocide Memorial is a great way to demonstrate your commitment to the cause. If you would like to invest in social enterprise, get in touch to see how you could help us grow.
Books and mementos available in the Kigali Genocide Memorial’s Gift Shop can also be purchased online here through championhumanity.com. These include ‘Imigongo’ – traditional Rwandan wall art – and jewellery featuring the ‘Ubumuntu’ symbol; a celebration and expression of the wearer’s commitment to humanity. The income generated from this social enterprise helps to support all aspects of the Memorial’s work.
White Rose Recycled Fashion was established as a social enterprise in 2009 by two British university graduates hugely inspired after visiting the Kigali Genocide Memorial and exploring the Aegis Trust’s work in Rwanda. With high street stores in the UK and online accounts with major preloved retail platforms, White Rose offers lovingly hand-picked recycled clothes for men, women and children. Supporting peacebuilding, the enterprise also benefits the environment.
Good Human is a specialty coffee enterprise focused on delivering more than just an economic trade benefit to Rwandan farmers and those beautiful humans in the coffee supply chain. It aims to transform lives through a deeper understanding of the people within the supply chain, their challenges, what’s important to them and by supporting the wider community via the incredible peace building and reconciliation work being delivered at the Kigali Genocide Memorial and beyond.
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