AGLI Programs
AVP: In Rwanda, AVP is conducting six workshops in six resettlement communities for Hutu and Tutsi Rwandans who were recently expelled from Tanzania. They are also doing a series of workshops in remote villages of Eastern Province where the wounds from the genocide are still festering.
In Kenya, AVP plans on doing more than 100 workshops, mostly with youth who were involved with the violence after the December 27, 2007 election.
HROC: In Burundi, HROC is concentrating its work in three up-country sites. They are also developing a special workshop for HIV+ women and a second level, Healing of Memories, workshop.
In Rwanda, HROC plans on developing a workshop geared for teenagers and a second for youth in their twenties. These will be done with the children of the Women in Dialogue program of the Friends Peace House. They are also beginning workshops with the Batwa, the third, minority ethnic group in Rwanda.
After AGLI began the HROC program in North Kivu of the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year, HROC-North Kivu will use its trained Healing Companions to do basic HROC workshops in internally displaced camps.
In Kenya, the attempt to introduce HROC to the victims of the clashes on Mt Elgon had to be postponed due to the violence after the Kenyan elections. This is now re-scheduled for April.
Workcamps:
AGLI is planning five workcamps for the summer—FWA clinic in Kamenge, Burundi; up-country Burundi; Gisenyi Peace Center in Rwanda; Friends Peace Centre-Lubao, Kenya; and Kaimosi Hospital, Kenya.
Friends Women’s Association: One of the AGLI workcamps will complete the last three rooms needed for the clinic to be recognized by the Government as an approved full clinic. FWA is working with HROC to develop the HIV+ workshop. They continue to work with local HIV+ women (and some men) and do regular medical work for the surrounding population.
Talks in 2008:
David Zaremkba on Violence in Kenya, March 2 to 18
Adrien Niyongabo on HROC in Burundi, March 6 to April 6
Florence Ntakarutimana on HROC in Burundi, June to July
Theoneste Bizimana on HROC in Rwanda, July to August
Getry Agizah on AVP in Kenya, October to November