Association de Jeunes de Saint Charles Lwanga (AJECL)

AJECL stands for Association de Jeunes de Saint Charles Lwanga (AJECL) customized in English as Association of Youths of Saint Charles Lwanga. We are a nonprofit organization established in October 2004 in the District of Nyarugenge, City of Kigali by Abbé Théogène IYAKAREMYE with a group of young people of the Nyamirambo Parish under the encouragement of the late Father GASANA Emmanuel, who was the parish priest. AJECL obtained the legal personality in the year 2008 by the Ministerial Decree No. 58/11 18/04/2008 published in the J. O. 4 of the January 26, 2009. It is registered in Rwanda Governance Board on 11th June 2013. AJECL has been created with a purpose of providing its modest contribution to the implementation of solutions to problems facing the Rwandan society. It invests its efforts in the revitalization of youth as a category of the vulnerable population so that they can play a significant role in the socio-economic development of the country, inspired by the life of Saint Charles Lwanga, a Ugandan Martyr appointed by the Catholic Church as universal patron and model of African youth. The long-term aim is to have, in the future, mature citizens able to withstand all kinds of manipulation and exploitation; citizens who can fight by non-violent means for peace, justice and progress for all.