Dear Visitors,

It is my pleasure to welcome you on our website. On April 6, 1994, Hutu extremists unleashed a genocide in which a million of innocent Tutsi were murdered in one hundred days of what was a meticulously planned genocide. Most of the victims were killed in their villages or in towns, often by their neighbors and fellow villagers.

In the aftermath of the Genocide, living conditions dictated that, students survivors of genocide come together, for warmth and comfort they much needed. They founded AERG (Association des Eleves et Etudiants Réscapés du Genocide des Tutsi du Rwanda), which later on gave birth to GAERG.

GAERG (an acronym from a French name “Groupe des Anciens Etudiants Rescapés du Genocide”) is a group of former students Survivors of the Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda, and the Alumni of AERG .

GAERG was founded in September 2003 with a mission of bringing together all former students who graduated from various higher learning institutions. The core purpose of our organization is to empower the survivors, both members and non members in order to address different welfare problems faced by the entire survivor’s community and the Rwandans at large.

Dear visitors, this website is an education tool on the Tutsi Genocide. It is a useful and rich source of information on the survivors’ history to date. It highlights immediate and future areas of intervention as per current Survivors vision and expectation. It will also highlight some noteworthy daily activities of other Survivors organizations fighting for the same cause.

We acknowledge the broadness of our mission, but we trust that we have a generous endowment of courage, strength and determination. However, without you and me, the cause we stand for would not be achieved. We appeal to you, Rwandans and non Rwandans, Survivors and non Survivors, to join us in this noble cause. We are Up-standers, determined to share the light of hope with other Survivors. We live to put a smile on faces of the victims of the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda, and we act to heal ‘physical and more importantly, psychological wounds caused by genocide. We also act to safeguard and keep the memory of the more than one million innocent victims who perished during the Genocide against Tutsi. As we conclude, we would like to highlight the need for your support; our members, and non members as we fight against the negation and revision of the genocide against Tutsi. We sincerely acknowledge the International Community’s commitment to the “Never Again” oath (slogan). But, without surprise, we continue to face a very growing movement of revisionists and Genocide deniers worldwide. Let us stand united as we fight to eradicate any genocidal ideology this propaganda is sowing around the world, and give a meaning to “Never Again”. Let us strive to make the World a peaceful, just and fair place for all.

"Alutta Continua”

The President.