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Thursday 2 April 2026

Closing the 6th Phase of training for inmates preparing to complete their sentences for crimes related to the Genocide against the Tutsi 1994 in Nyamasheke CF.

Today, at Nyamasheke Correctional Facility, Organization DiDe Rwanda has participated in the closing ceremony of the sixth phase of training on promoting Unity and Resilience among Rwandans is...

Tuesday 23 December 2025

Employee of the Year 2025

Congratulations to our staff member Angeline Habarugira as Employee of the year 2025.

Thursday 4 September 2025

"Rwamagana Social Reintegration Centre Launching "

On 3rd September, Organization DiDe Rwanda, We were honored to attend the launch of the "Rwamagana Social Reintegration Centre" opening ceremony. @DiDe_Rwanda is excited to continue working with...

Thursday 17 July 2025

The introduction of new programme on consolidating unity & resilience in 7 districts in Rwanda.

Fig 1:At Nyamasheke District Office In collaboration with @Interpeace_Org and all partners (DiDe Rwanda, HAGURUKA, and Prison Fellowship Rwanda), they had a cordial meeting with the leadership of...

Wednesday 4 June 2025

A CONFERENCE WITH WOMEN INMATES PREPARING FOR REINTEGRATION AFTER SERVING THEIR SENTENCES RELATED TO THE GENOCIDE AGAINST THE TUTSI 1994

From May 21 to 30, 2025, DiDe Rwanda collaborated with MINUBUMWE in Nyamagabe Correctional Facility to support women who committed Genocide related crimes and are nearing sentence completion. On...

Thursday 23 January 2025

DiDe’s BEST EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR 2024

Meet Our Best Employee of the year 2024 " NYINAWUMUNTU Solange "

Friday 20 December 2024

DiDe Staff Retreat 2024 HUMAN FOR DIGNITY

Figure above are : All DiDe staffs. Karongi District, Rwanda – DiDe Rwanda is proud to announce a transformative 3-day staff retreat held in the picturesque Karongi District, nestled on the...

Tuesday 29 October 2024

GRADUATION CEREMONY OF MVURA NKUVURE GROUPS 2024

Thursday 12 September 2024

DiDe Rwanda Organization HAS ATTENDED THE 26th ICPA ANNUAL CONFERENCE.

Thursday 20 June 2024

International Day of the African Child on 16/06/2024 at Nyagatare C.F

Thursday 11 April 2024

The Executive Director (ED) of DiDe Rwanda held a meeting with the president of Interpeace.

Thursday 7 March 2024

REINFORCING COMMUNITY CAPACITY FOR SOCIAL COHESION AND RECONCILIATION THOUGH SOCIETAL HEALING PROGRAMME

Thursday 7 March 2024

GRADUATION CEREMONY OF SOCIOTHERAPY HEALING GROUPS.

Wednesday 6 December 2023

INTERPEACE RWANDA AND ITS LOCAL IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS (DIDE, HAGURUKA, AND PRISON FELLOWSHIP RWANDA) ORGANIZED A 5-DAY PLANNING RETREAT

In her opening remarks, the Executive Director of DiDe (Dignite en Detention), Odette Mukansoro appreciated everyone for their role in the last 2 years of implementation and expressed her eagerness...

Thursday 19 October 2023

GALS training to DIDE staff

For a long time, Rwandan society was characterized by unequal social power relations between men and women, boys and girls. These relations were translated into male‘s dominance and women’s...

Saturday 11 February 2023

INTERPEACE RWANDA AND ITS LOCAL IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS (DIDE, HAGURUKA, AND PRISON FELLOWSHIP RWANDA) ORGANIZED A 5-DAY PLANNING RETREA

Tuesday 7 February 2023

REINTEGRATION OF CHILDREN UNDER 3 YEARS OLD LIVING WITH THEIR MOTHERS IN PRISON INTO THE SOCIETY

One of the activities planned in the project is the training of psycho-social assistants who accompany children living with their mothers incarcerated in the women’s prisons of Ngoma and Nyamagabe....

Tuesday 13 December 2022

GRADUATION CREMONY OF MVURA NKUVURE GROUPS

Inline with the D.K.U Yesterday 13th Dignity in detention hosted a graduation ceremony at GicumbiPrison where 165 prisoners who benefitted from Mvura Nkuvure were celebrated and 23 inmates were...

Thursday 3 November 2022

Training of community facilitator’s multifamily healing spaces

During the implementation phase of the Interpeace/SIDA Programme, the following activities were undertaken over the month of October, 2022: Training of community facilitator’s multifamily healing...

Sunday 30 October 2022

Penitentiary and Community involvement in the reintegration of women prisoners and children living with their mothers in the women’s prisons of Ngoma and Nyamagabe(WBI)

In this October under WBI program to integrate children under 3 years living with their mothers in prisons children have been linked with their families at Kayonza District(Ndego Sector/ Byimana...

Thursday 28 July 2022

THE LAUNCHING AND HANDOVER OF THE WELDING WORKSHOP AT NYAGATARE JUVENILE DETENTION

The launching and handover of the welding workshop at Nyagatare juvenile prison. 28TH July at Nyagatare Prison was the event of inauguration of the workshop for youth being corrected at the...

Wednesday 13 July 2022

WORKSHOP ON HUMAN RIGHT MONITORING AND REPORTING

Human Right Monitoring and reporting workshop In a 3 days a workshop organized by Cladho with the support from UNDP, the objective of the training was to learn techniques of Human Right...

Wednesday 6 July 2022

VALIDATION MEETING OF THE MEDIATION MODULE PREPARED BY HAGURUKA

On 6th July at Parkinn hotel Haguruka organized one day workshop meeting it is a validation of the mediation module that will be used in the community in order to prevent people going to court for...

Friday 3 June 2022

VISIT OF JACQUES VARRASSE FROM WBI

We are happy to receive the visit of M Jacques Varrasse from WBI our partner for a very long time, this month he is in Rwanda to visit the activities WBI have been funding and is still funding now....

Monday 30 May 2022

FINDINGS OF THE BASELINE SURVEY FOR RWANDA HEALING PROGRAMME

The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda was one of the largest man-made disasters of the 20th century and deeply damaged the social fabric of the Rwandan society, to be implemented in 5...

Friday 29 April 2022

The Annual planning workshop is to discuss...

The Annual planning workshop is to discuss all successful activities and other lesson learned and make necessary adjustment. For DIDE during the introduction in prisons there is an issue of...

Tuesday 5 April 2022

OFFICE VISIT FROM HUMAN RIGHT COMMISSION & OTHER PARTNERS

Today we are delighted to receive the delegation from the NCHR(National Commission for Human Rights) and their partners including RCSP(Rwanda Civil Society Platform), CLADHO(Collectif des Ligues et...

Monday 14 March 2022

PRESENTATION BASELINE SURVEY ON THE HALFWAY HOME PROJECT

Today at Marriot Hotel Kigali DIDE RWANDA with its partners Sterling Foundation and RCS presented the findings in the Baseline survey of the Halfway home project, the project that will support...

Wednesday 2 March 2022

RWANDA HEALING PROGRAM INTRODUCTION IN THE PRISONS

Today DIDE Rwanda introduced the new project to the heads of selected prisons entitled "Reinforcing Community Capacity for social cohesion and reconciliation through societal trauma healing in...

Monday 14 February 2022

VISIT TO NYAGATARE JUVENILE PRISON TO PRESENT D.K.U. THE NEW PROJECT

The Executive Director of DIDE RWANDA alongside with LAF legal Aid Attorney introduced the DKU project into the Prisons, Gicumbi prison and Nyagatare Prison respectively. Here Inmates will receive...

Thursday 20 January 2022

PRESENTATION OF D.K.U(DUFATANYA KUBAKA UBUTABERA) TO THE RCS HIGH COMMAND

The Executive Director of Dignity in Detention(DIDE RWANDA) together with the Executive Director of LAF(Legal Aid Forum)Rwanda and governance specialist of USAID Rwanda paid a visit to...

Tuesday 11 January 2022

RWANDA HEALING PROGRAM BASELINE STUDY

This program which will bring together society in a healing sessions of the GENOCIDE survivors and their neighbors with perpetrators, Program Managers and Monitoring & Evaluation Officer...

Tuesday 21 December 2021

INTRODUCTION OF RWANDA HEALING PROGRAM TO THE NEW MAYORS OF DISTRICTS

DIDE RWANDA with its partners Interpeace, PFR (Prison Fellowship Rwanda) and HAGURUKA introduced the project called "Reinforcing community capacity for social cohesion and reconciliation through...

Tuesday 30 November 2021

VISIT OF DIDE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TO THE US AMBASSADOR

The executive director of DIDE RWANDA paid a visit to the US Ambassador in Rwanda to discuss projects funded by USAID.

Thursday 18 November 2021

Joint Planning & Partnership-building workshop with our partners

Interpeace and its partners, Prison Fellowship Rwanda (PFR), HAGURUKA and Dignity in Detention Organisation (DIDE) have recently secured funding from SIDA to expand the current interventions under...

Tuesday 9 November 2021

RESEARCH ON HALFWAY HOME TRANSIT CENTRE

To make the half way home center a better transit for prisoners with less than 3 years left on their sentence, ground research has been conducted to find what would be the main focus ABOUT US...

Tuesday 26 October 2021

HALFWAY HOME NEED ASSESSMENT

This week DiDE staffs and RCS staff had a briefing on correcting qualitative data that will be used to determine what services and programs to be conducted in the halfway home center. Important...

Sunday 8 November 2020

CONSULTATIVE FORUM

Protecting Human Rights Within Rwanda’s Criminal Justice System DIDE RWANDA a NGO with extensive experience in working within Rwanda’s prison to provide rehabilitative psycho-social support to...

Friday 30 October 2020

JUSTICE, HEALING, RECONCILIATION

For 18 month DIDE Organization has conducted a program JUSTICE, HEALING, RECONCILIATION. In partnership with RBJ (Rwanda Bridge to Justice) to unite Rwandans in prison for the crime of...

Saturday 17 October 2020

RIGHT AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

Dignité en Détention (DIDE RWANDA) in partnership with RBJ(Rwanda bridge to justice) has conducted the awareness campaign on the legal right "URI UMWERE IGIHE CYOSE UTARAHAMWA ICYAHA" which miss...

Monday 28 September 2020

RECONCILIATION THROUGH FORGIVNESS

Since March 2019, Dignité en Détention (DIDE RWANDA) is implementing initially a 15 months modified to 18 months project called Rehabilitative Justice for reconciliation in Rwanda under the...

Sunday 28 June 2020

DiDe Flash Info - April 2019

Current projects The DiDé Foundation remains involved in Rwanda in the framework of three projects: the project for women detained at Ngoma Prison and their children, the one in partnership with...

Sunday 28 June 2020

DiDe Flash Info - March 2019

Ngoma Women’s Prison As part of the project funded by Wallonia-Brussels International aimed at the psychosocial rehabilitation of women prisoners and children of Ngoma Prison, DiDé psychologists...

Friday 26 June 2020

DiDe Flash Info - February 2019

DiDé’s activities in Rwanda, presented in our latest edition of the "Flash Info" have continued but unfortunately have suffered a slowdown compared to their usual pace. This is due to the fact that...

Friday 26 June 2020

DiDe Flash Info - January 2019

This year will be characterized in particular by the actions carried out within the framework of two projects in Rwanda. In Ngoma prison, we will consolidate the psychosocial support system for all...

Thursday 25 June 2020

DiDe Flash Info - December 2018

Ngoma Women’s Prison The activities planned within the framework of the psychosocial reintegration and vocational training project for women detained in Ngoma prison continued according to the...

Monday 15 June 2020

DiDé Flash Info - November 2018

The DiDé organization in 2018 2018 represents a year of changes for the Foundation and for the activities developed in Rwanda. This year was marked mainly by the end of the project carried out...

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