Souzane Murekatete on empowering vulnerable women through weaving скачать в хорошем качестве

Souzane Murekatete on empowering vulnerable women through weaving

In 2016, Souzane met with women artisans of the cooperative of Umurage W’agaseke and saw that they were making great products that were also popular on the market. Together with her friend Tom Grass William from the United Kingdom, they came up with an idea to work with Rwandan women and make basket chairs with locally available materials. The idea didn’t go into effect immediately but after her entrepreneurship and leadership course, in 2018, Murekatete founded the initiative Iriza Ntako Heritage Ltd, a community-based organisation that makes products using ancestral techniques and organic vegetal fibre with crafted colours, among other things. The organisation has four categories of women, teen mothers, low income earners, former sex workers and those living with HIV/AIDS.