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UMUSEKE Non-Profit Organization

The Rwandan Organization UMUSEKE wagers on the future by participating in the prevention of conflict by means of pedagogical activities aimed at the 10 to 20-year age group.

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UMUSEKE is convinced that it is possible not to resign oneself to acknowledge the seeds of tension, of war and of injustice, and that each individual, children and young people alike, has the power to commit oneself, to preventing violence and to work towards a more just society.

The Organization’s Objectives

• Promote a culture of peace from a young age as it is a prerequisite for a humane sustainable development

• Conceive, apply and put into place programs and projects that have a relationship, either direct or indirect, with the different, complementary aspects : socio-economic development that does not infringe upon the environment and the development of peace.

Successfully Completed Projects

• Organization of a Path of Peace in the schools and youth centers

• International seminar on the tools for teaching peace

• Meeting of exchange between youths of the Great Lakes region

• Path of Peace at the Scout « Jamboree » in Burundi

Current Projects

• Towards citizenship with the Path of Peace

• Construction of a House of Peace (Resource Center)

• Environmental protection

External Partners

• CCFD : Comité Catholique contre la Faim et pour le Développement (Catholic Committee Against Hunger and For Development)

• Par La Main (By the Hand Non-profit Organization)

• ERM : Enfants Réfugiés du Monde (Child Refugees of the World)

UMESEKE asbl Coordinates

• Address : B.P 5185 Kigali -Rwanda

• Tel : 00 250 0852 47 30

• Fax : 00 250 58 57 59

• Email : pax_umuseke@yahoo.fr

Additional Information

• Date created : January 2, 2000

• Legal status : Non-profit organization

• Executive Appointees :

  • Jean Pierre Niyonzima : President (tel :  + 250 0876 37 29)

  • Vénantie Mukaremera : Vice President (tel :  + 260 0883 94 84)

  • Jeanne d’Arc Uwimana : Treasurer (tel :  + 250 0867 21 55)

  • Jacqueline Uwimana : Coordinator (tel :  + 250 0852 47 30)