Genocide Against Tutsi caused significant loss of human lives and material deprivation. Those who survived continue to experience severe problems, including loss of family, Physical disablement, and psychological trauma. These factors have severe adverse consequences for student survivors, including Hopelessness, social isolation, educational failure, and a high drop-out rate. Strength is found by joining together, so the students in the problem decided to create an association to coordinate the resources of student and pupil survivors to overcome the above-stated issues. We have named Association des Etudiants Et Éleves Rescapés du Genocide (AERG).
AERG (Association des Etudiants Et Éleves Rescapés Du Genocide) is an association of student survivors of genocide. Created on 20/10/1996 at format UNR by 12 students, it has quickly grown. Now AERG is represented nationally at 44 Universities and institutes of higher learning and 475 secondary schools in Rwanda, with a total country-wide membership of 43,398.