Congo Refugees Using Entrepreneurial Skills in Rwanda Camp
February 4th, 2010 by Wil Robinson
Interesting piece in the New Internationalist magazine about Congo refugees earning a living in Rwandan camps written by a (likely good-looking) journalist also named Wil.
He was an 18-year-old orphan when he crossed the border into Rwanda as a refugee, fleeing the violence that had overtaken the Congo.
But no one could guess it watching Dieudonne Tuyisenge work from behind his sewing machine. In 1996, he arrived at a refugee camp near the Rwandan town of Kibuye, sitting across a lake that borders the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A refugee given sanctuary by a country still recovering from the 1994 genocide, Tuyisenge had to subsist on meagre food rations from the United Nations.
Yet today, his shop is stocked with food, cookware, soap, handbags, clothing and other miscellaneous items for sale.
He has no higher education, no access to a formal banking system and no transportation. Nevertheless, Tuyisenge has an entrepreneur’s acumen, importing supplies from Kibuye to sell in the camp and reinvesting profit to purchase another sewing machine…
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Tags: refugees, New Internationalist, Rwanda, jobs, DR Congo
A South African friend of mine said the education in that war torn zone is better than in South Africa.
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