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 in the Foreign Service. Step Up! is based in Columbia, Missouri, USA, with collaborative chapters across the United States.
We encourage you to join Step Up! to bring hope to the survivors of the Rwandan genocide. Your donation will help us to build and maintain the Rwanda counseling center to assist women survivors of rape and other gender-based violence. The center will be called Nsanga, which means “come to me” and it will be a place for hope and healing.