Discover Rwanda

Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda. August 4, 2005. Children on a Rwandan farm. Anywhere you go in Rwanda, as soon as you pull out a camera a group of curious children will form to meet the strangers and shyly pose. These children lived on the mountainside farms we crossed on the first part of our trek to see the gorillas. Credit: by Sarel Kromer.

Join Aegis Students this summer 2010 on a life changing journey by participating in our educational and volunteering trip to experience Rwanda, the "Land of a Thousand Hills".

Discover Rwanda is a 3 week long trip for youth and students to Rwanda, packed full of different activities with a focus on learning about the genocide which tore Rwanda apart in 1994, meeting the survivors and engaging in activities to confront its legacy and understand what we can do, to help prevent it occurring again.

Aegis Students, the student wing of the NGO and charity Aegis Trust which works to prevent genocide, is an international youth movement committed to educating, campaigning and fundraising to end genocide. As you may know, Aegis Trust was invited to create the Kigali Memorial Centre - which opened in 2004 - in partnership with the Kigali City Council. Aegis continues to manage the centre and among other projects, provides support to destitute survivors and education for Rwanda's youth against genocide ideology. 

Participants in Discover Rwanda will experience Rwanda's vibrant culture, visit genocide memorial sites, build meaningful relationships, participate in social activities, discover the tourist sites, attend specially orgnanised seminars, engage with like-minded students in Rwandan Aegis Students groups and contribute to Aegis Trust's projects in Rwanda. Participants also have the opportunity to develop and pursue research objectives through the structure of the trip and will be supported by the Discover Rwanda team in this.

For more information about the trip, including a booking form, poster and a brochure about Discover Rwanda visit or view their short film...

In 2010 there are two Discover Rwanda trips for youth and students and a one week educators and professionals field seminar which you may be interested in. More information about the professionals field seminar can be obtained here.

The dates for the trips are as follows:

Discover Rwanda 1: July 2010
Discover Rwanda 2: August 2010
Discover Rwanda Professional Seminar: August 2010

Discover Rwanda costs £2399 and includes flights (return to Rwanda from the UK), accommodation, transport in Rwanda, food, activities & seminars (including Aegis Students' International Conference held annually in Kigali), safari, pre-trip preparatory seminar, information and resources pack. The Discover Rwanda team will also assist you in developing a personal project plan so you can contribute and use your skills within the volunteering section of the trip.

We hope that this is the beginning of a life changing journey for you to visit and experience Rwanda, "The Land of a Thousand Hills".