08/27/2026
https://www.rrgo.org/?p=2247
Healing knows no borders.
We are incredibly proud of our Assistant Director, Tamir Bell, whose work and leadership recently took him all the way to Rwanda as part of a University of Michigan-Dearborn team learning alongside communities doing powerful work around trauma, resilience, healing, and reconciliation.
In Nyamagabe District, genocide survivors and people who had completed prison sentences came together to practice trauma-informed resilience skills, movement, music, and Laughter for Healing—creating space for people with deeply painful histories to experience connection, humanity, and hope together.
For us at Nation Outside, there is something especially powerful about this work.
We believe people are more than the worst thing that has happened to them—or the worst thing they have ever done. We believe healing is possible. We believe community matters. And we believe transformation happens when we create spaces where people can be seen as fully human.
Tamir continues to bring that same spirit of curiosity, compassion, and people-centered leadership to his work at Nation Outside every day.
We are proud to have leaders on our team who are not only helping transform communities here in Michigan, but are also learning from communities across the world.
Congratulations, Tamir. Keep planting seeds of change wherever you go.
A joint program combining trauma-informed skills with the ancient wisdom of laughter is quietly reshaping how communities in southern Rwanda live alongside the legacy of the 1994 genocide. By Uwera Consolee | Edited by Samuel Habimana NYAMAGABE DISTRICT, Rwanda — Read More ...
