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• THE LAUNCHING AND HANDOVER OF THE WELDING WORKSHOP AT NYAGATARE JUVENILE DETENTION

  28 July 2022

  The launching and handover of the welding workshop at Nyagatare juvenile prison. 28TH July at Nyagatare Prison was the event of inauguration of the workshop for youth being corrected at the juvenile detention. Build and equipped by Caritas Byumba funded by Oxfam through the IrishAid the workshop will serve as the skill centre to acquire the knowledge that will help them work and make a living in the society as well as building the country in the development
  Speaking in the name of the (…)

• VALIDATION WORKSHOP ON RCS CURRICULUM

  25 July 2022

  The validation of the RCS curriculum held at Kigali Marriot Hotel will be used in all the prisons in the country for correction of inmates and to help in their reintegration.
  With the support from ILPD and Interpeace the curriculum will cover the issue of inmates released not to return in the crimes.
  The Curriculum has 8 modules that will be taught in 6 months and it targets also their families and the society in general.
  Different lessons about human rights, laws, civic engagement (…)

• CONSTRUCION OF ECD OF CHILD LIVING WITH THEIR MOTHERS

  20 July 2022

• WORKSHOP ON HUMAN RIGHT MONITORING AND REPORTING

  13 July 2022

  Human Right Monitoring and reporting workshop
  In a 3 days a workshop organized by Cladho with the support from UNDP, the objective of the training was to learn techniques of Human Right monitoring and reporting. Opening the workshop Representatives of CLADHO, UN human right Commission and the Rwanda civil society platform all thanked the participants for their time and all who made great effort for the training to happen, they encouraged us to use the tools learned during the time in our (…)

• VALIDATION MEETING OF THE MEDIATION MODULE PREPARED BY HAGURUKA

  6 July 2022

  On 6th July at Parkinn hotel Haguruka organized one day workshop meeting it is a validation of the mediation module that will be used in the community in order to prevent people going to court for minor conflict like land and other family conflict.
  During the workshop we went through the module where we saw the meaning of the conflict and the cause, there is conflict for a person himself, Frustration, Natural denial, one between 2 persons, groups and more
  The way conflict appears: (…)

• PSYCHO-EDUCATION TRAINING FOR LOCAL AND OPINION LEADERS

  22 June 2022

  DIDE is conducting the psycho-education training for local and opinion leaders in 5 Districts of the country, this is inline with the program we partnered with Interpeace, Prison fellowship, and haguruka under the project called "Reinforcing community capacity for social cohesion and reconciliation through Societal Trauma Healing in Rwanda program".
  Those 5 Districts are Musanze, Ngoma, Nyabihu, Nagatare and Nyamagabe. a 10 day session will be conducted in 25 sectors of the above districts (…)

• INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD

  22 June 2022

  16th June every year mark the International day for the African child, with this year theme "protect the child, build a better future" where DIDE RWANDA and our partners Interpeace, Haguruka and Prison Fellowship with the support of the Sweden Embassy in Rwanda we celebrate this day at Nyagatare Juvenile Prison.
  The need to protect the children from violence of any form is the common language used by those who spoke at the event, rising the problems that Juvenile in detention are facing, (…)

• VISIT AT MURAMBI GENOCIDE MEMORIAL

  22 June 2022

  This National Genocide Memorial Sites contains the remains of approximately 50,000 victims killed at the technical school, including some remains exhumed from the surrounding area. Only 34 people from this site are believed to have survived the genocide.
  It is in that commemoration, DIDE alongside Interpeace, PFR, and Haguruka visited the site and saw what happened at Murambi, after they passed a message in the visitors book.

• VISIT OF JACQUES VARRASSE FROM WBI

  3 June 2022

  We are happy to receive the visit of M Jacques Varrasse from WBI our partner for a very long time, this month he is in Rwanda to visit the activities WBI have been funding and is still funding now.
  The visit at our new office focused on explaining to him how we grow into a big team and other project we are working on:
  1: Rwanda healing program funded by SIDA.
  Here we provide psychosocial support and mental health support to heal trauma in the society.
  we improve the social cohesion to (…)

• FINDINGS OF THE BASELINE SURVEY FOR RWANDA HEALING PROGRAMME

  30 May 2022

  The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda was one of the largest man-made disasters of the 20th century and deeply damaged the social fabric of the Rwandan society, to be implemented in 5 districts: Nyabihu, Musanze, Nyamagabe, Ngoma and Nyagatare. With a goal “To reinforce social cohesion and sustainable peace through scaling up community-based healing initiatives†, The interpeace Programme funded by Swedish Embassy.
  The Specific objectives are the following:
  a) Understand (…)