About us
A4FH “Igikundiro” aims to be a specialized Centre for healing, peace and conflict transformation. The Alliance seeks to identify problems and bring people to participate in finding solutions through education, mentorship, rehabilitation, advocacy and capacity building.
Motto: Healthy, Wealthy and Peace
Motto: Healthy, Wealthy and Peace
Our Theory Of Change
The Alliance for Family Harmony Igikundiro’s Theory Of Change is towards “Healthy, Peaceful and Wealthy Families” protected against abuse, exploitation and violence. We provide support so as to build peaceful families, to improve their livelihood and to sustain adequate living conditions
Our Vision
Alliance for Family Harmony “IGIKUNDIRO” envisions a Peaceful Society in which families live free of conflicts.
Our Mission
The Alliance for Family Harmony’s mission is to support efforts from different actors (individuals, families and institutions) in building and promoting sustainable peace.
Our Goal
Is to build and promote sustainable peace with families, communities and partners. We strongly believe that peace and harmony bring people to feel confident and to adhere to any other program for positive change.
Our Objectives
- To promote a culture of peace and conflict management within communities
- To build on human and cultural values on conflict prevention and management
- To promote mutual respect, justice, social and economic equity
- To create a friendly environment for active listening and counseling services
- To build partnerships around peace and harmony within families and communities
Strategies
Our work cascades into five thematic groups:
- Family support;
- Mental health;
- Social and economic empowerment;
- Peace building;
- Advocacy.
Core Programs
- Family support: holistic support to families to remain connected and interconnected (cohesion);
- Child protection: Provide assistance to vulnerable families to improve their living conditions and child protection services;
- Youth empowerment: Educate youth for their engagement and entrepreneurship;
- Positive Parenting: help parents to improve their communication and to educate children;
- Protection of Elders (grand-parents and old people): Support elders to cope with new situations and sustain adequate living conditions.
Family support services
- Support Family Health and wellbeing in critical situation;
- Provision of social services to children and families in crisis;
- Set rules for all family members and space to evaluate each other, set strategies to remain connected in families (communication with one another).
- Building peaceful families through fun and positive memories (establishing family games, discovering oneself and one another, making family meals, volunteering in the community, or doing special family projects together).
Mental health services
- Accentuate on “I matter” to make everyone responsible and important within the family
- Offering safe spaces to victims of abuse and neglect;
- Providing counseling and psychological support services (individual, prenuptial, couple, parents, youth, system…)
- Training on personal development and resilience
Social and economic empowerment
- Developing a sense of autonomy and self-confidence;
- Acting individually and collectively to change social relationships;
- Organize economic activities (farming, cooperatives, art, and microfinance groups);
- Capacity building, learning and development;
- Initiation of saving groups
Advocacy and partnership
- Building alliances
- Research
- Advocacy
Request a Call back
Use the form on the right to contact us, we shall get back to you as soon as possible.
Tel: +250 788 535 599
Email: info@igikundiro.org.rw
Tel: +250 788 535 599
Email: info@igikundiro.org.rw