About Us

Living Bricks is a partnership between the producers of As We Forgive and Prison Fellowship International (PFI).  As We Forgive is an award-winning documentary featuring a story of forgiveness between a genocide survivor and killer who engage in a bold house-building initiative led by PFI's Rwanda office.  Filmmaker Laura Waters Hinson teamed up with PFI to establish Living Bricks as a way of connecting viewers of the documentary to PFI's unique reconciliation project.  All funds donated to Living Bricks go directly to fund PFI's house building project in Rwanda. 

To learn more about As We Forgive, please visit the official website: www.asweforgivemovie.com

Prison Fellowship International (PFI) is the world's largest and most extensive criminal justice ministry, with a global association of over 100 national organizations.  Prison Fellowship Rwanda (PFR) is one of these indigenously led organizations whose unique house-building project is featured in As We Forgive.  In the film, PFR's “Umuvumu Tree” project makes it possible for ex-genocide prisoners to build houses for their victim's families as a practical sign of reconciliation.  This project serves as the basis for the Living Bricks campaign. 

Prison Fellowship Rwanda has ministries in all 17 of Rwanda's federal prisons, and has worked with over 30,000 genocide prisoners.  Today, PFR is engaged in a variety of other important reconciliation projects, including the Umuvumu Tree reconciliation workshops.  These reconciliation workshops are a place where genocide perpetrators are invited to confess and ask for forgiveness from their victims' families, and in response, survivors are offered counseling and mediation if they choose to reconcile with the perpetrators.

To learn more, please visit www.pfi.org.