From July 18–19, 2025, the Transformational Leadership Center (TLC), through the Children’s Peace Library, organized a two-day workshop for librarians aimed at enhancing their leadership and conflict resolution skills. The workshop primarily served as a refresher training on facilitating Peer Mediation sessions and was led by TLC Supervisor Therese Mukamanzi and Children Peace Libraries Coordinator…
Read MoreThe Transformational Leadership center (TLC), through the Children’s Peace Libraries hosted a training for Librarians on peer mediation from December 6-8, 2023. This training took place in Gicumbi district and was led by TLC staff. The goal of the training was to build the capacity of librarians to become facilitators of peer mediation, and the…
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From December 20-21 2022, TLC led a peer mediation training at the Gicumbi Children’s Peace Library. This training is led with the help of two facilitators Mukamanzi Therese and Ingabire Blandine, along with librarian Jean d’Amour Tuyizere. The participants were form two local schools (GS Byumba Inyange and GS Gacurabwenge Primary School). There were 26…
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The participants were very happy and thankful to TLC for the knowledge they got; they said that this knowledge will help them to change slowly their behaviours and start a new way of living in peace with their peers and friends. They enjoyed being mediators in their school and in communities where they live. After…
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The participants were girls and boys from one school in Gatenga Sector called George Fox Kagarama primary school. They were all selected from primary 4 and 5 classes. Two years ago this school requested for a peer mediation training because of the issues students have been having in their communities. To help the students at…
Read MoreThe Gisenyi town Library is an amazing Peace Library that offers children access to reading books near many Gisenyi primary schools. When the library first opened there were many children who came to check out books and each day the number of children increased. So far the number of children using the library is around…
Read MoreGiselle, 12, and Rosine, 11, are two students at College George Fox de Kagarama primary school in Kigali. They have been attending the library since it first opened in 2008 and come weekly to read and check out new books. Giselle’s family has several books at home, but most are in French and more for…
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