Today Aegis has an unrivalled opportunity to break cycles of violence and prevent mass atrocities in three countries at risk – but to do so we need your help, and we need to move fast.

After ten years of building peace in Rwanda, Aegis is being called upon by leaders in government, faith communities and public life in the Central African Republic (CAR), Kenya and South Sudan to bring the experience of our Rwandan staff to help to avert the threat of mass atrocities.

To respond effectively, Aegis needs $5million to establish nationwide peace-building programmes across Kenya, South Sudan and the Central African Republic in 2015. Our immediate need is to raise $1million, to launch the programmes.

If you commit to a monthly donation for Aegis today, the Pears Foundation will match your first year’s contribution, so that brave people working to stop hatred in these three countries can get the urgently needed support they’ve asked us to give them.

Why peacebuilding is needed

In this 14-minute film, leaders from countries in crisis explain why their communities need the peace-building model which has been developed in Rwanda by the Aegis Trust.

“It’s not easy to forget. But it’s possible to forgive. That’s what’s happening in Rwanda, thanks to the Aegis Trust; and that’s what should be happening in all these countries that have problems.”

Cleo Mukula, Kenyan journalist