Today
marked the official beginning of our SMART project! Starting in Kigali, we met
with our key stakeholders: Mwiza Willy who heads the Apiculture and Commercial
Insects Program for the Rwandan Agriculture and Animal Resources Development
Board (RAB), Rose Muhumuza the founder of E&E Green Farms, and representing
the Rwandan Organic Beekeeping Company (ROBEEC) were founders Roch Domerago and
Eve De Sadeleer, as well as administrators Habimana Jean Baptiste, and Iyibukiro
Amata Bonne. We gained valuable insight from the work and values of ROBEEC and
RAB and are looking forward to hearing more about E&E Green Farms from Rose
as well as navigating the relationship between ROBEEC and RAB. Afterwards, we visited
the Kigali Genocide Memorial where we learned about the history leading up to
the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, listened to the stories of survivors, and learned
about what the country is doing now to rebuild and move forward. All this to
say, it was an exciting and emotional beginning to our journey and research!
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