Genocide survivors and other women from low-income backgrounds discuss their business plans for their new cooperative outside the charity ActionAid office in southern Rwanda’s Nyanza district on April 8, 2019. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Nita Bhalla
NYANZA, Rwanda, April 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Immaculee Mukantabana, 57, and Constancia Uwimana, 39, may not seem any different to the dozen or so other women gathered at the cooperative meeting in southern Rwanda’s Nyanza district.
The two women sat beside one another – discussing how much money they have saved since the collective was established four months ago, and how long it will take them before they can rent a plot of land to grow beans to sell in the local market. Read More
