Co-founders and Co-leads: Prince Mugisha (Rwanda) and Laurena Zondo (Canada)
Prince Mugisha serves as Executive Director and Board Chair (since 2014), 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 opportunity for training, mentoring and internships.
Laurena Zondo is a social entrepreneur with the initial vision and drive behind A Peace of Life. It sprang from her experience in designing and facilitating communications, arts and peace programs among youth in Rwanda/Great Lakes Region. From workshops at schools and village clubs to an innovative media project (Gafotozi, 2009) among orphans and vulnerable children (with documentary photographer Johnny Lam) to the launch of an Annual Peace Camp (2010) that continues to bring youth together from across the Great Lakes Region for peace building and entrepreneurship skills training. She is fondly known as “Mama Peace” and serves as Vice Chair of the Board.
Meet the Team
Director, Rwanda
Director, Burundi
Director, DR Congo
Director, Rwanda
Director, Tanzania
Director, Rwanda
Director, Rwanda
Director, Tanzania
Accountant, Rwanda
Meet our very first Board of Directors
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 non-profit 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).
A Peace of Life 
Shalom to all a peace of life’s partners.
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a better mission from God. it true all the world needs peace and peace will be building with actions, may God Bless U!
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Thanks to organise the peace of life camp but you can enhance the well being of youth live in AEBR in rural areas invite also to participate in camp because they have mindset mentality on their families
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This is the work which contain more blessings from God. may God bless you.
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surely i got you when i was doing research on peace building in youth of great lakes region, from my heart i thanked you for your help in peace building. for this i wanna be one of your volunteer. will you accept my request?
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i am HAKIZIMANA FRODOUALD student of CUR AT TABA(butare) in level 3 socia work Dvpmt and sun of Rev Past HABYARIMANA FRANCOIN AT AEBR Gikongoro. thanks for your mission because its better in Africa.so i may recommend to be come under the rural region then god will be on yours
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U must do this mission and u will receive the blessing from the God
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Wow….
Thank God for these posts.
May the Lord bless this work.
Keep it up.
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My name is NIYIGABA Samuel i m a student at school of finance and banking MBURABUTURO WHILE i m reading what you do on internet i become very happy.Im also child of REV PAST .NDAGIJIMANA Hesron from ESECOMU.May god bless you so much
NIYIGABA samuel
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