After raising almost $2,000 in sponsorship for an incredible 100km ride with the Central African Republic’s national cycling team through the streets of Bangui, the country’s war-torn capital, development worker David de Armey (pictured, left) has won the draw for the top prize in the 2014 Aegis Citycard Cycles Challenge – a Raleigh Revenio Carbon 1, [...]
Back from his latest visit to Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, where he encountered impassable roads planted with anti-tank mines and witnessed the terrifying effects of a Government air attack on Farandalla Hospital, Dr Mukesh Kapila – the Aegis Trust’s Special Representative on Crimes Against Humanity – says that although deeply disturbed by what he witnessed, he’s [...]
The Aegis Citycard Cycles 100km challenge drew to a close in style this week as riders took to the road in the Central African Republic and in the UK with double Olympic medallist Bryan Steel. Raising funds for Aegis, the ride featured a team of more than a dozen participants from Nottingham City Council – [...]
Aegis is delighted that Raleigh, the famed British cycling brand which has been creating bikes in Nottingham for well over a century, has joined Nottingham City Council and others to sponsor a 100km cycling challenge for Aegis this month by providing the top prize for the draw which participants can enter by raising sponsorship. The £1,250 Raleigh Revenio [...]
At the invitation of faith leaders in the Central African Republic who took part in the August peace conference in Kigali, the Aegis Trust has just visited CAR to meet with community leaders and Government ministers – including interim President Catherine Samba Panza – to explore ways in which lessons from Rwanda could be applied [...]
Nottingham City Council is teaming up this September with Olympic cycling medallist Bryan Steel and the Aegis Trust - which is based in Notts - to sponsor a cycling challenge that will raise vital funds for Aegis’ peacebuilding education and genocide prevention work internationally. To complete the Aegis Citycard Cycles 100km Challenge, members of the [...]
A two-day “Global Peace Builders Conference” organised by Faith-based organisations, the Aegis Trust, Rwanda Youth Action Network and Rwanda Civil Society Platform brought together religious leaders from the Central African Republic and youth leaders from South Sudan, as well as Rwandan peace builders, in Kigali over the 7th and 8th of August. The delegation from [...]
LawsonThe Prime Minister of Norway visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial on 3 July whilst in Rwanda as part of a regional visit to South Africa and Malawi to promote education and equal access to education for boys and girls. Together with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Prime Minister Solberg co-chairs the United Nations Millennium [...]
Stephen Twigg MP, Chair of the British All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (APPG) and Senator Roméo A. Dallaire, Chair of the Canadian All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity (GPG) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding formalising the bi-lateral relationship between the [...]
Lynne Featherstone yesterday laid a wreath at the Ntarama Memorial Site to commemorate the genocide as part of a three day visit to Rwanda. While at Ntarama, which is in Rwanda’s Eastern Province, she met with representatives from the Aegis Trust who provided a tour of the site and gave her an account of what [...]
