Step Up!

Step Up! training teams deliver annual workshops in Rwanda to develop and enhance the trauma counseling skills of counselors, nurses, clergy, and university faculty. We provide financial support to women who generate self-sustaining income through planting crops, raising cows and keeping honey bees. Our goal is to construct a rural health and counseling center to [...]

Step Up! exists to empower Rwandan women who are survivors of the genocide. Through collaboration with grass roots organizations in Rwanda and international institutions, we provide training and education to Rwandan practitioners in order to meet the psychological and economic needs of trauma survivors and their dependents.

Step Up! American Association for Rwandan Women is a non-profit organization established in 2004 to assist women and children in Rwanda who survived gender-based and other violence during the genocide of 1994. The organization is led by a board of directors and advisors with experience in grass roots community organizations, education, and mental health and [...]