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Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Services

Pioneering a new path to peace by providing resources for trauma healing and reconciliation in  Burundi and the African Great Lakes Region.

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Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Services

Pioneering a new path to peace by providing resources for trauma healing and reconciliation in  Burundi and the African Great Lakes Region.

Healing from the Heart of Africa

Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Services is pioneering a new path to peace by providing resources for trauma healing and reconciliation in  Burundi and the African Great Lakes Region.

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What is THARS?

THARS is an independent non-profit organization that helps bring peace using a holistic approach to healing and resolution of differences.

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Our Services

THARS practitioners provide healing to people who have experienced trauma of civil war, displacement and genocide.

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Success

First-hand stories of people empowered by the therapeutic services, workshops, and training provided by THARS.

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Videos

Learn more about THARS through videos produced in Kirundi (the native language of Burundi and Rwanda) with English translation.

The seeds of tomorrow’s wars grow in the soil of today’s unhealed traumas.

The seeds of tomorrow’s peace grow in the soil of today’s healing and reconciliation.