Through Children Department
Children are the ground basis of peace building. If the focus of a child’s development is put on physical and cognitive growth, the socio-emotional and spiritual growth will delay its accomplishments. As a pillar of each society, children have to be nurtured, protected and given a space of growing holistically to enable them to accomplish their today’s vision for a bright future. AB intends to raise parents, church and communities’ awareness to offer to children this space of holistic transformation. Today’s child will be tomorrow’s youth, leaders and future head of families. The best time to start equipping peace builders and good leaders and to dispose a solid foundation of the family well being is the childhood. Potential and vulnerable, children constitute an important portion of the population and particularly with religious communities that are unique and irreplaceable agents to shape the priorities of children towards their future. If this foundation is well settled, the future of the nation is established (UNICEF and Religions for Peace 2010). Children will not be ‘tomorrow’s peacebuilders and good leaders, unless they are socialized and educated in a substantial context to develop their skills and talents.
We Focus on:
1. Counseling and Peace building
- Offering Individual and Group counseling
- Nurture children with the culture of peace and hope
- Advocacy and awareness raising of child rights
2. Social and economic transformation
- Promoting Early childhood Development
- Education and Building partnerships with schools
- Talent Development
3. Research and Publications
- Street children: statistic, causes and consequences
- Effect of domestic violence on children
- Divorced families and children’s rights
- Night jobs and children’s education
- Children rights in Rwanda’s families