Meet the Board

Prince Mugisha serves as Executive Director (since 2016), leading the development of A Peace of Life as a youth peace social enterprise that provides training and mentoring to encourage and empower youth in Africa’s Great Lakes Region to be catalysts of peace and development. Prince is also a young entrepreneur who successfully launched his own business – Lion’s Cafe & Bakery – in Rwanda and Tanzania. His business model promotes social enterprise and offers youth training, internships and mentoring.

Laurena Zondo is a social entrepreneur with the initial vision behind A Peace of Life – springing from her experience in designing and facilitating communications and peace programs among youth in Rwanda/Great Lakes Region. From school workshops to an innovative media project (Gafotozi, in 2009, with documentary photographer Johnny Lam) among orphans and vulnerable children, to the launch of an Annual Peace Camp that brings youth together from across the Great Lakes Region for peacebuilding & entrepreneurship training. She’s fondly known as “Mama Peace” and serves as consultant on the board.

Meet our Founders

APOL’s first team of directors (left to right):  Prince, Laurena, Aline, Nadine, Timothy, Anthony, Petite, Adjabu, Amanda and Gilbert, celebrating the registration as a youth    peace organization based in Rwanda.

What we do

We train and mentor youth to become peer leaders in the use of creative communications, mediation and social enterprise for peacebuilding and community development in the Great Lakes region of Africa. We offer peace camps, workshops, and other skills learning opportunities in partnership with community-based groups and individuals. We also support income-generating activities of our affiliated peace clubs in Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Tanzania through our 10,000 Dreams Challenge (youth social enterprise initiative).

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