The vision of SIAC started in 2011 when Rev. Immaculée Nyiransengimana, a Pastor from the Anglican Church of Rwanda in the Shyogwe Diocese was a Masters of Social Work student at Uganda Christian University conducting research on aging in Rwanda which revealed that elders experience a variety of different challenges including:  poverty, loneliness, poor health, poor hygiene and sanitation to name, but a few.

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After discussing the results of the research with the Rt Rev. Dr. Jered Kalimba, the Bishop of EAR, Shyogwe Diocese and Dr. Katharine Hobart her MSW supervisor, Pastor Immaculée Nyiransengimana determined that the elders’ needs were great enough that something needed to be done. Therefore, she began organising elders into local clubs to help them to solve some of their problems. From here it grew into different parishes starting elder clubs.  The first elders club was initiated in the Gasharu Parish in Muhanga

District on 27/10/2011 and it was followed by     Mutara club in the Ruhango district. 

Due to the positive experience of these first elder clubs, SIAC was motivated to extend its work beyond Shyogwe Diocese and to become more professional and broad-based.  It is in this way that Sazana Ishema Aging Centre (SIAC) was started as a National Interdenominational Faith Based Organization which has legal authority to work in the whole of Rwanda with different partners. It got its legal personality from Rwanda Governance Board (RGB) on 8/9/2021.