What we do

Our programs focus on four main pillars: Psychological Healing and Reconciliation, Peace-building, Improving Community Livelihood, and Youth Empowerment

Our approach

CARSA is a faith-based NGO with over twenty years of experience working in post-genocide Rwanda. We believe that through these four pillars we can bring sustainable and transformational development to communities and individuals.

Since our beginning in 2002 we have worked directly with villages spread across Muhanga and Kamonyi District, but now we are working closely and deeply with the village of Nyamabuye.

Key areas of focus

Empower Workshop

  • Since 2012, there have been 70 workshops and 2,520 participants

Resilience Cell Groups (RCGs)

  • 86 RCGs

  • 3000+ RCG members

Cows for Peace

  • 390 cows given to 800 families

Peace Conferences

  • Over 5,000 primary and secondary students attended the conference

  • 7 schools across Muhanga and Kaymoni districts

Peace Clubs

  • 30 clubs established in 30 schools

  • Size varies from 150-250 students in each club

Youth Peace Groups

  • 158 members total across 3 groups in Muhanga and Kaymoni districts

  • Groups do community activities like cultivating, gathering together resources to support genocide survivor needs, planting seedlings, and raising pigs

  • CARSA provides training about peace-building, takes students to visit the Kigali genocide memorial, and organizes savings groups

Housing and Livelihood

  • 7 houses built, 2 renovated

  • 9 families total, which is 59 people

Mugina Community (Historically Marginalized Group)

  • Conducted 2 Empower workshops with 72 participants total

  • CARSA has started a savings group, a Tujijurane brick-building cooperative, and other income-generating activities

  • Tujijurane Cooperative - 70 families, over 300 members

  • With a loan from CARSA, the cooperative built over 70,000 bricks

Education Sponsorship Programs (ESP)

  • 25 students from low-income families have been sponsored

Various other youth empowerment initiatives

  • In partnership with CEDAR Fund, CARSA conducted climate-smart agriculture training for 14 RCGs

  • 60 complete jerseys were provided to the Mugina football team

  • A two-day seminar on financial literacy was run

  • CARSA provided vocational training and, with their partner God Cares, essential resources such as school supplies, uniforms, hygiene products, and sewing machines.

UPRC is a long-term, collaborative heart project from CARSA Rwanda that aspires to become the first place for Rwandans to share their positive stories of reconciliation after the 1994 genocide

Our Work in 2023-2025

It is with heartfelt gratitude that we present CARSA’s Two-Year Impact Report (2023–2025). Over the past two years, we have witnessed a remarkable transformation in our communities as healing, reconciliation, and renewed hope have taken root in places once marked by deep pain and division.

Through your faithful support, whether in prayer, partnership, or financial giving, more than 3,000 individuals have been reached through workshops, dialogues, and support groups. Survivors and former perpetrators have come together in courage and forgiveness, youth have risen as peacebuilders, and local leaders are embracing restorative justice as a path to lasting peace.