Farmers
Impact Stories
Farmers Stories
With wages earned working on Ikirezi geranium farm sites, many farmers have been able to improve their livelihood and have a more dignified life they could not have afforded otherwise due to scarcity of jobs in the country side .
Some of their stories told here below are a reminder that no work is negligible and that even through work on a farming site like those of Ikirezi, one can, not only earn a living but register remarkable developmental progress.
More farmers stories will continue to be shared on this page.
READ ABOUT THE FARMERS WHO have transformed their lives working with ikirezi
The story of Alphonsine
Alphonsine Mukanziza is in her early sixties. Over two decades ago, she moved to Gahara from the Southern part of Rwanda running away from an abusive husband who used to beat her up badly especially when he was drunk. Alphonsine was welcomed by a relative who was living in Gahara near where Ikirezi’s farm is located. A few months after her arrival in this new countryside she got remarried to a man who had just lost his wife…….Read more (PDF)
The story of Josephine (PDF)
The story of Liliane (PDF)