Chantal Nyiramahirwe, a Congolese from Kiziba refugee camp, is a primary educated, mother of four. Despite the tailoring skills acquired in 2012, she faced limited business knowledge and her family poverty, hardly affording one meal a day.
In 2022, Chantal joined Caritas Rwanda’s Poverty Alleviation Coalition (PAC), a US Government funded project, that filled her knowledge and financial gaps through appropriate trainings and a cash grant worth Rwf 800,000, which boosted high her manufacturing and selling of African loincloths to local and regional customers, including US resettled fellow refugees.
Chantal testifies having improved her family living conditions: Can afford a healthy diet, she saves Rwf 10,000 every week in a saving group, the tailoring business is worth Rwf 2,600,000 and her bank saving is up to Rwf 4,200,000.