PGEF ADVISORY BOARD
Reva N. Adler • Shyaka Anastase • Elizabeth Brill • Eugene Bushayija • Gerald Caplan • Smail Cekic • Francois Gurambe • Robert K. Hitchcock • Carole Hodge • Linda R. Melvern • Martin Mennecke • Esther Mujawayo • Cecile Mukarubuga • Leon Saur • Gregory H. Stanton • Ervin Staub • Scott Straus • Samuel Totten • Rafiki Ubaldo • Alexander Zahar
Reva N. Adler • Shyaka Anastase • Elizabeth Brill • Eugene Bushayija • Gerald Caplan • Smail Cekic • Francois Gurambe • Robert K. Hitchcock • Carole Hodge • Linda R. Melvern • Martin Mennecke • Esther Mujawayo • Cecile Mukarubuga • Leon Saur • Gregory H. Stanton • Ervin Staub • Scott Straus • Samuel Totten • Rafiki Ubaldo • Alexander Zahar
Esther Mujawayo
Esther Mujawayo is a sociologist and psychotherapist in a psychological center for refugees in Duesseldorf, Germany. She specializes in post-genocide psychic trauma.
She was born in 1958 in Rwanda. She survived the genocide of 1994 during which almost all her family was destroyed, except for her three daughters, her two sisters, and a sister-in-law.
Esther Mujawayo is co-author, with Souad Belhaddad, of the book "SurVivantes". In the book, Esther recalls her life: from her birth on a Rwandan hill to her current life in Germany. She tries to recount the appalling wound of the genocide in order to overcome the terrible guilty feeling about: "Why did I survive?"
In July 1994, she co-founded the association of widows of the Rwandan genocide, "Avega-Agahozo", which tries to help women survivors, in particular those who were raped and suffer today from HIV-AIDS.