Friends Peace House

Friends Peace House At Friends Peace House our mission is to promote peace, unity and reconciliation among the people of Rwanda.

Friends Peace House was founded in December 2000 by the Evangelical Friends Church of Rwanda, following the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi to be an advocate for peace, reconciliation, and conflict resolution in Rwanda. Our core values include:
- Peace (Shalom)
- Integrity
- Forgiveness
- Reconciliation
- Unity
- Transparency
- Openness
- Discernment

Our current work includes:
- Mwana Nshuti Voc

ational Training School in Kigali (Mechanics, Hair-dressing, & Culinary Arts offered) and Bugesera (Sewing & Construction offered)
- Savings and Loans Community Programs
- Conservation Agriculture
- Mediation and Peace Training (AVP & HROC)
- AVP in Prisons
- The Listening Room (mediation services)
- Refugee Resettlement and Counseling Services
- Peace Radio

Social Enterprises #1: The Coffee Shop & Sustainable Funding Over the next four weeks, we are going to be highlighting...
29/06/2026

Social Enterprises #1: The Coffee Shop & Sustainable Funding

Over the next four weeks, we are going to be highlighting the four social enterprises that Friends Peace House operates and the benefits that these businesses provide to students at Mwananshuti VTC, community members, and Friends Peace House programming. Currently, Friends Peace House has four types of social enterprises: a coffee shop, a hair salon, two garages, and a tailoring workshop.

Today, we are going to highlight the coffee shop.

The M & Levering Coffee Shop is located right beside the Friends Peace House office, in Kagarama, Kicukiro, Inside the compound of Eglise Evangelique des Amis au Rwanda (EEAR) and George Fox College Kagarama. It is the perfect place to stop by for some coffee or juice and a snack if you are visiting our office. It is also a great place to have a meal with friends.

Like all of our social enterprises, the coffee shop provides a variety of benefits, but today we are going to be focusing on one benefit in particular—revenue generation and sustainable funding! Both the coffee shop and the garages are operated by other organizations, using space that is rented out by Friends Peace House. These organizations pay Friends Peace House to use these spaces, and the money FPH receives goes towards funding programming at Mwananshuti VTC, providing Mwananshuti VTC with some consistent income that is not reliant on funding from external organizations. This helps to provide stability and will help Mwananshuti to be able to operate sustainably for a long time to come.

Come say hello and grab something to eat at the coffee shop if you are in the area!

One of the community development projects we operate at Friends Peace house is the clean water project. Take a look at s...
07/05/2026

One of the community development projects we operate at Friends Peace house is the clean water project. Take a look at some photos of Friends Peace House distributing water filters to residents of Bugesera district earlier this year.

Access to safe drinking-water is a significant challenge for many residents in Bugesera District. Since 2022, Friends Peace House has collaborated with Global Access 2030 to distribute water purifiers to farmers and members of saving groups. Global Access 2030 provides water purifiers, and Friends Peace House handles their distribution, ensuring they reach those in need. These purifiers have provided families with safe drinking water, significantly reducing the risk of waterborne diseases, and improving their health.

We are grateful to Global Access 2030 for partnering with us and the hard work of staff at Friends Peace House as we work to further expand access to clean drinking water.

Last week we gathered to launch our newest project. The title of the project is “Community Reintegration: Training Genoc...
23/04/2026

Last week we gathered to launch our newest project. The title of the project is “Community Reintegration: Training Genocide Convicts approaching release on Alternatives to Violence.” The goal of the project is to help reintegrate genocide convicts into their communities upon their release and to promote peaceful and non-violent ways of relating to one another.

It has been 32 years since the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. After the genocide many people were convicted and sentenced to prison terms for their participation in the genocide. Three decades later many of these genocide convicts are set to be released and to rejoin their communities. This is a sensitive time for all involved and has the potential to create tensions and conflict within communities. This project aims to give genocide convicts and their communities tools and opportunities to help them navigate this transition in a peaceful way.

This project is in partnership with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and will run from April 2026-March 2029. The project has two components. The first component will involve AVP (Alternatives to Violence) training in prisons prior to convicts being released. The second component is community reconciliation activities including community dialogues, awareness campaigns, and joint peace initiatives through football games.

The project launch included MCC, staff, representatives from the Evangelical Friends Church of Rwanda, APV facilitators and Friends Peace House staff, volunteers and community members.

We are excited for the opportunity to launch this project and grateful to everyone involved in making it possible!

Transformational Mediation Training in Gikongoro CDJP (Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission) Gikongoro is a Catholic Gr...
15/04/2026

Transformational Mediation Training in Gikongoro

CDJP (Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission) Gikongoro is a Catholic Group from the southern province of Rwanda that reached out to Friends Peace House to learn about the Transformational Mediation Program. The group in the photo participated in a Transformational Mediation training workshop last May.

Our Transformational Mediation program began in 2014 with the goal of bringing reconciliation to broken relationships. This program not only focuses on helping individuals work out their situations and issues, but the main focus is on rebuilding relationships. This program works with people within our communities but also provides workshops to equip and train others in conflict resolution and reconciliation.

We are grateful for the many different groups equipping themselves and their communities for lives of peace.

We recently welcomed a new cohort of students to Mwananshuti VTC at both our Bugesera and Kicukiro campuses. Students wi...
02/04/2026

We recently welcomed a new cohort of students to Mwananshuti VTC at both our Bugesera and Kicukiro campuses. Students will spend the next six months learning a trade, either construction or tailoring at the Bugesera campus, or automobile repair and maintenance, hairdressing, or culinary arts at the Kicukiro campus.

At the same time, we said farewell to the previous cohort of students. They are done learning in the classroom and will spend the next two months at internships practicing their trades and learning more skills.

We wish all our learners that best as they begin this new phase of education!

🌿New Goats!🐐Take a look at some recent photos of participants in our Conservation Agriculture program with their new goa...
23/02/2026

🌿New Goats!🐐Take a look at some recent photos of participants in our Conservation Agriculture program with their new goats.

The Conservation Agriculture (CA) program focuses on enhancing food security through sustainable agricultural practices. Participants trained as part of this program commit to teaching five of their neighbors what they have learned, creating a ripple effect in the community. Participants in the program receive goats to supply manure for farming. The first offspring of each goat is given away to a neighbor enhancing the ripple effect and increasing food security within the community.

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Visit from New MCC Staff Last Friday, we were happy to receive a visit from staff at Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), ...
13/02/2026

Visit from New MCC Staff

Last Friday, we were happy to receive a visit from staff at Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), one of the partner organizations we work with. We were particularly happy to welcome two recent additions to the MCC Rwanda team, one of the Representatives for MCC Rwanda and Burundi, and the Program Manager for MCC Rwanda and Burundi. We look forward to working with them more in the future!

In the morning, we shared about our various programs and showed them around Mwananshuti Kicukiro. In the afternoon, we traveled to Bugesera to visit some participants who are part of both the Conservation Agriculture project, and also part of our Saving for Life project. We were joined by our field staff at Friends Peace House and some staff from the Peace and Development Network. It was a wonderful opportunity to share about our work and hear from participants about the impact these projects have had on their lives.

You can learn more about our community development projects, including Conservation Agriculture (CA) and Saving for Life (SFL), on our website.

https://friendspeacehouse.com/index.php

Friends Peace House hosted an AVP (Alternatives to Violence Program) training in December. The training took place in Ru...
03/02/2026

Friends Peace House hosted an AVP (Alternatives to Violence Program) training in December. The training took place in Rutunga Sector in Gasabo District. There were 31 participants. During AVP training, participants work together to identify the root causes of violence and conflict and creative peaceful ways to solve them.

Learn more about AVP at https://avp.international/

Students at Mwananshuti, Bugesera have been learning about conservation agriculture practices, by working together to cr...
23/01/2026

Students at Mwananshuti, Bugesera have been learning about conservation agriculture practices, by working together to create a garden. The garden is on land recently purchased by Mwananshuti, beside the existing Bugesera campus. The new land allows room for a garden, a kitchen, and new buildings to give students and staff more space. Students will be able to bring their new agricultural knowledge home to their families and put their learning into action, growing food at home. We are excited to see the fruits of their labour! 🌱🌷🌹🪴🌳

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KK 29 Avenue
Kicukiro

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

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+250788525619

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