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ASYV Choir
ASYV Students
ASYV Students
ASYV Students
ASYV Students
ASYV Students
Edmond J. Safra Community Center rear view
Edmond J. Safra Community Center terrace
Inside the Edmond J. Safra Community Center
Inside the Edmond J. Safra Community Center
Liquidnet Family High School
Opening of the Edmond J. Safra Community Center
Opening of the Edmond J. Safra Community Center
Student Houses
The 1994 Rwandan genocide resulted in the deaths of an estimated 800,000 men, women, and children. Close to 1.2 million Rwandan children (15% of the country’s total population) were orphaned, and they have had neither the time nor the resources to come to terms with their trauma (especially those who were forced to become surrogate parents to their younger siblings).
The Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village (ASYV) is a full-time residential high school whose fundamental goal is to allow the process of healing to take place. Through the establishment of a long-term, nurturing, and family-like environment, the Agahozo [dry their tears] Shalom [peace] Youth Village aims to create a brighter future for orphaned children and a new generation of leaders ready to take Rwanda forward.
The village is located on a 58-hectare piece of land in the Rawamagana district, and it will ultimately function as a home and educational facility for over 500 orphans. The first phase of the project, which was completed in December 2008, includes 32 dormitories (each housing 16 children and a house-mother), the school, a health clinic, library, chapel, the Edmond J. Safra Community Center (which includes the dining hall), and athletic fields.
