NOTRE MISSION

The core business (mission) of AMI is to work for the integral development of every person and the whole person. AMI is convinced that only such accomplished people can sustainably promote peace and good neighborhood in a difficult context like the Rwandan post-genocide one. The demand is community driven and the organization is there to support and educate these persons willing to make a change with a special focus on the youth. This will be achieved through developing a positive inner strength which manifests externally through three aspects, namely a no-fear attitude, resilience towards life hardships and non-exclusion for any member of the community in the post-genocide Rwandan society. Furthermore, AMI continues to seek lasting and non-violent solutions to the problem of conflict and violence that have bereaved Rwandan society. AMI promotes a culture of peace, conflict management and reconciliation through community-based dialogue spaces, advocacy and policy influence. They provide psychosocial support to people with “wounded hearts”, improve the well-being of the vulnerable and marginalized persons of the society and contributes to the promotion of human rights and gender equality. AMI focuses its activities in the Southern province, specifically in the districts of Huye, Gisagara, Nyaruguru and Nyanza districts.However, since two years ago, under the demand of the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission of Rwanda (NURC), AMI extended their activities to the needy regions of the country like Nyabihu in Western Province. The approach they use can be adapted and reproduced elsewhere on the African Continent. For instance, they have started with some activities in the DRC (Kivu Region) and in the Central African Republic where they are initiating NGOs and faith-based organizations to their reconciliation and psychosocial approaches. With APTE (Germany) and CIPCRE (Cameroun), they set up an ambulant university (Peace University in Africa) where AMI’s peace promotion approaches are taught to peace builders from different countries, mainly African countries, together with other approaches. Each year, a campus is organized in an African country victim of conflicts. AMI targets and works with different groups and institutions in the society, including the Community leaders (intellectuals, village elders) and local authorities, married couples torn apart by domestic conflicts and their children,vulnerable groups (people with broken hearts, marginalized single mothers, girls at risk, alcoholics and drug addicts, violated minors), genocide survivors and their families, genocide prisoners and ex-prisoners convicted of genocide and their families, Educational Institutions, National and International Forums, networks, NGOs, churches and local and international ecclesiastical institutions and advocacy groups.