Ancille Mukakabana, 71, is has just joined a self help group. She is in poor health, and depends on her children and grand children to provide for her.
Ancille does have easier access to water as this side of the village has a water point nearby.
Ancille has one of the prettier toilet, draped in a passionfruit vine.
Ancille Mukakabana, 71, is has just joined a self help group. She is in poor health, and depends on her children and grand children to provide for her.
Ancille does have easier access to water as this side of the village has a water point nearby.
Ancille with her grandchildren (L-R) Valence Nkuruuziza, 7, Denise Tuyizere, 12, Maria Musabyimana, 8, and Rachel Iradukunda, 1 (Maria is carrying Rachel on her back).
Ancille Mukakabana, 71, is has just joined a self help group. She is in poor health, and depends on her children and grand children to provide for her.
Ancille does have easier access to water as this side of the village has a water point nearby.
Ancille in her house.
One year on, Ancille walks to a self-help group meeting with a friend.
One year on, Ancille sits with her self help group (white shirt at back)
After her first year, Ancille sat for a portrait photo. In one year, she says that she is much happier, and now has support around her.
After her first year, Ancille sat for a portrait photo. In one year, she says that she is much happier, and now has support around her.
Ancille in 2018, leading the NGO group to her house.
Ancille's health problems have stopped her from working, but she is still happy and is supported by her self-help group.
Asked how she would like to portray the way she feels after two years in her self-help group, Ancille had two of her groups members hold her hands.
Kelley listens to Ancille tell of her experience with the self-help group.
Ancille is one of the older members and has health problems. She struggles to work for an income, but is suppoerted by her group.
She is managing to raise rabits for sale as food, an idea suggested by her self-help group.
Ancille is one of the older members and has health problems. She struggles to work for an income, but is suppoerted by her group.
She is managing to raise rabits for sale as food, an idea suggested by her self-help group.
Ancille in her home, a marked contrast to the same photo two years earlier.
Ancille with the rabbits she is raising to sell.
Ancille and Kelley