Overview
Ubuntu Center for Peace is a Not-for-Profit Organization registered as a 501 (c) 3 organization in the United States. It works with its sister organization registered and operating in Rwanda, headquartered in Kamonyi district, Southern Province, where it has been implementing a community-based social healing model to address both individual and collective traumas and other common mental disorders. The Ubuntu Trauma healing and mental health work is rooted in the founders’ personal stories of trauma after the 1994 genocide. It’s a passion and irresistible calling to help heal those suffering from the “silent killers” including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Depression, Anxiety, Psychosomatic and Substance Abuse Disorders, convinced that everyone deserves to live life to the fullest.
Our Mission
Our mission is to bring people living with trauma and common mental disorders to a more flourishing life, in a world plagued by increasingly human-made and natural disasters.
Our Vision
Our vision is of a healthier and more productive society free of ill-mental health, where Community Healing Assistants bring services to the doorsteps and classrooms of the most affected communities in Rwanda and across the African continent, with a particular attention to the African Great Lakes Region.
Our Values
We are bold and risk-takers in all that we do and we do it with empathy, integrity, solidarity and agency for a more just and peaceful world. We believe in improving lives of trauma-affected individuals and communities alike, convinced that everyone deserves a dignified life.
We create healthier and more productive communities by healing people living with psychological trauma and other common mental disorders, convinced that everyone deserves a dignified life