MONDAY OCTOBER 6th
4:30 Fellowship with David and Rachel.
6:00 Potluck Dinner (bring what you can).
7: 00 Presentation by David.
Friends (Quaker) Meeting House
1831 Fern Street, VictoriaYou are are welcome to come, meet and hear from David Bucara and his wife Rachel Bugenimana, active, courageous and effective peacemakers in the African Great Lakes region of Burundi, Western Kenya, Uganda and Eastern Congo (DRC).
David is Coordinator of the African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) of the Friends Peace Teams. He has long experience as a pastor, peacemaker, and educator, with degrees in education, theology and leadership. He and his wife Rachel Bugenimana live in Kigali, Rwanda. They have three children, two daughters and one boy.
Along with working with AGLI since its inception in 1999 and Coordinator of the Friends Peace Team/AGLI for the last six years, he is Deputy of the Peace and Development Network in Rwanda. He is a Friends World Committee for Consultaton (FWCC) Africa Section representative to the work of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva. David has served as General Secretary and General Superintendent of Rwanda Yearly Meeting. He was the first director of Peace House, a Quaker-inspired center for interfaith and interethnic reconciliation started the year after the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.