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Living Bricks is a partnership of
As We Forgive
and
Prison Fellowship International

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The Living Bricks Mission

Living Bricks is an initiative to restore hearts and homes in Rwanda following the destruction of the 1994 genocide. Living Bricks equips repentant genocide perpetrators with the tools to build much-needed housing for their victims' families, establishing new villages where former killers and survivors live together again as neighbors through practical reconciliation. 

Launched by the producers of the award-winning documentary As We Forgive, Living Bricks is a unique viewer action campaign that invites people to join Rwanda's reconciliation movement through a partnership with Prison Fellowship International.

To date, over 10,000 ex-prisoners have asked for the supplies to build these houses of hope. Living Bricks exists to make this happen. Will you join us by giving a brick?

The Power of Practical Reconciliation

The goal of Living Bricks is to join in Rwanda's national movement of reconciliation, helping former enemies who are forgiving one another to physically and emotionally rebuild after genocide. The Living Bricks Village will serve as a hub for cooperative economic projects and other educational and spiritual development programs. The building of each new village is managed by an indigenously led team at Prison Fellowship Rwanda, an organization that has already successfully built one of these villages in the Bugesera district of Rwanda.

Art in Action: A Unique Partnership

Filmmaker Laura Waters Hinson and Prison Fellowship International (PFI) have teamed up to establish Living Bricks, a viewer action campaign that connects viewers of As We Forgive to PFI's house-building project featured in the documentary. To read more about this partnership, click here.

Why Build New Homes?

The greatest threat to reconciliation in Rwanda today is poverty. Look at the facts:

  • Nearly 1 million orphans and widows were left by the genocide.
  • More than 84 percent of all Rwandans live on less than $2 per day.
  • Beyond the killings, extensive property damage left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.
  • Most Rwandans say that poverty is the biggest hindrance to reconciliation.

“And much like the bricks they stack today, the Rwandan people are themselves ‘Living Bricks’-- each one a cracked but sturdy building block.”

–An excerpt from As We Forgive

What exactly IS a Living Brick?

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