The societal healing program adopts a comprehensive and distinctive approach, providing mental health treatments, improving social cohesion, and developing long-term livelihoods for the intended beneficiaries. These include Genocide survivors, Genocide perpetrators, ex-combatants, and returnees from 1959 to 1994 (current and former/released offenders), in addition to the families of these individuals, youth, and local leaders. Other planned participants are community-based groups and entities involved in mental health, social cohesion, and joint economic development initiatives at the community level.

The programme provides safe spaces for dialogue, healing, and capacity strengthening of existing formal mental health structures and local societal healing practitioners to strengthen a comprehensive and community-based mental health and psychosocial support system.

Our program aims to contribute to the consolidation of a peaceful, resilient, and inclusive Rwandan society, enabling it to overcome the wounds of the past, peacefully manage conflicts and diversity, collectively and inclusively strengthen livelihood resilience, and empower citizens to influence policies responsive to their priorities. It is implemented through three axes: mental health, social cohesion, and sustainable collaborative livelihoods. Gender, climate resilience, and conflict sensitivity aspects are also integrated as cross-cutting issues across the three axes.