Legacy Mission Village
Ebralie Mwizerwa and William Mwizerwa, Co-Directors
EERI
Founded by refugees for refugees, Legacy’s mission is to provide hope and healing to refugees in the Middle Tennessee area by empowering refugees with education and skills to achieve stability and thereby facilitating successful integration into American society.
Year Founded: 2011
Legacy Mission Village has multiple ministries, serving families and individuals both in the United States and in countries across East Africa. Locally, Legacy Mission Village absorbed the refugee ministry originally founded by director William Mwizerwa, a ministry that has been actively supporting refugee families in Tennessee since 2000.
The Kindergarten Readiness Program (KRP) prepares 3-5-year-old refugee children and their families for entering the American School System. The children are taught basic academics and are exposed to American culture to prepare them for their transition into Kindergarten. The Journey After School Program seeks to provide academic, social and cultural support to newly arrived refugee high school students. Many refugee high school students arrive in the United States with limited or interrupted schooling due to their refugee journeys. In Legacy Mission Village’s Adult Basic Education program, students participate in Citizenship, English, Computer, Driving Permit, and Financial Education classes.
William and Ebraile Mwizerwa began the refugee ministry arm of Legacy Mission Village in 2000, begun under the umbrella of the local non-profit organization African Leadership. Over the years, William has served the refugee community in middle Tennessee as a minister, a counselor and a teacher, well-equipped to encourage those he works with as he and his family know first-hand the plight that refugees face because of the trials and suffering that they endured in their homeland of Rwanda.
Ebralie Mwizerwa and William Mwizerwa
Co-Directors
