Prison Fellowship Rwanda

Prison Fellowship Rwanda (PFR) is a faith-based organization and a member of Prison Fellowship International. Prison Fellowship Rwanda was founded in 1995, with the mission of contributing to the transformation of people through peace building, sustainable livelihood, justice, psychosocial and spiritual resilience in Rwanda, in the wake of the 1994 genocide against Tutsi and its aftermath. Since 2002, PFR activities expanded beyond prisons into communities. PFR works in partnership with the government of Rwanda and its relevant agencies, local and international organizations as well as UN agencies to foster interventions that enhance peace building and unity within communities, promote access to justice and protection for the people in need, provide psychosocial support and spiritual resilience to people with broken hearts, provide livelihood assistance to low-income people, promote environmental protection and climate change mitigation, strengthen the organizational capacity.