GWIZAMAHORO CLUBS

Gwiza Ahamoro Club AJECL

AJECL implements its youth peace education activities through Gwizamahoro clubs established in secondary schools, in higher learning institutions, and in the local communities . A Gwizamahoro club functions as a youth training space whose objective is to educate young people to become citizens who are united by their shared history rather than divided by it.
These citizens uphold values such as truth, freedom, tolerance, fraternity, and patriotism. Clubs consist of 20–30 young people trained by facilitators who were certified as trainers. Training lasts 60–80 hours and uses the well AJECL elaborated modules

Bridge Program

In the meantime, as you try to spot nearly the human interactions and you question the why of this or that, you imperatively remark that human interactions are results of a successional and transgenerational manners, whether someone is directly or indirectly the master of them.

For this Bridge Program 2020-2025, AJECL took its time to revisit the Rwandans’ history mainly stained by conflicts, hate, wars and sadly by the Genocide perpetrated against Tutsis in 1994. Indeed, we saw that the last 10 years of the 20th Century instilled terror and sadness among Rwandans and their neighbors due to war and the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis.

Moreover, we took time to research about the origin of that tragedy and we found that the roots of what happened in Rwanda by the end of 20th Century -to recall the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis is a sensational growth of a seed of divisionism implanted by White colonizers preached in their politics of “Divide to reign/Diviser pour regner”.

Hence, considering the facts that the ethnic-based divisionism started in the 1st Generation of the 20th Century and then metamorphosed into wars and the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis in the 4th Generation of the same Century, we stated that each generation has to think about and prepare a kind of a decent legacy to leave to the following/next generation.

As an illustration, let’s consider a Century as a parent with 4 children. The 1st born is considered as the 1st Generation of a Century, the 2nd born as the 2nd Generation, the 3rd born as the 3rd generation and as well as the last-born is identical to the 4th generation of a Century. So, we hope that the time each generation will understand which responsibility it holds towards one another in terms of sustaining the culture of peace, culture of love and a non-violence approach, we will live in a worthy world. It’s in this regard that AJECL is proposing this Bridge Program 2020-2025.

My First 20 Years Are Protected Program

“My First Twenty Years are protected program” is a special AJECL program designed as part of the special supervision of children and young people aged 12 to 20. This program is carried out at the level of 9&12 Years Basic Education schools that have Gwizamahoro clubs.

Each school has at least two teachers to monitor and train gwizamahoro clubs. These clubs play an important role at the school to promote the culture of peace by Non Violence means among Rwandan youth and specifically to insure the prevention of:

Early sexual relations,
Teenage and adolescent pregnancies,
Sexually transmitted diseases,
Drugs abuse,
Drops out,
Gender-based violence,
Juvenile delinquency,
Child labor not corresponding to their age,
Depression and trauma among young people, and,
The ideology of hatred, division and violence in the society.

Those who graduate from secondary schools create Gwizamahoro clubs in their respective communities to continue the work of society education through training, exchanges, sketches, role-playing, theater, poems, songs, etc.