Aimee Umuhoza is described as a worker at a coffee plantation in Kigali who lost both parents in the 1994 genocide. She worked to support her younger brother and sister and regarded the plantation as a place where people divided by the conflict could live and work together. Her testimony presents coffee labor as a setting for social healing and rejection of renewed hatred.
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Aimee Umuhoza worked at a coffee plantation in Kigali, picking and cleaning coffee beans. She had lost both parents in the genocide and needed employment to support her younger brother and sister. The low pay did not erase the importance of the work, which gave her a means of sustaining the surviving members of her family.
Aimee understood the plantation as more than a workplace. She described working alongside people who had experienced different forms of loss and said that shared problems made friendship possible. In her account, daily cooperation allowed people from different communities to meet without reproducing the hostility that had marked the past.
“I have been here for two years, and I can’t hate.”
Her testimony links economic activity to reconciliation. The coffee plantation offered a structured environment in which former divisions could be replaced by common work, mutual understanding, and a refusal to sow further hatred.
Aimee Umuhoza is described as a worker at a coffee plantation in Kigali who lost both parents in the 1994 genocide. She worked to support her younger brother and sister and regarded the plantation as a place where people divided by the conflict could live and work together. Her testimony presents coffee labor as a setting for social healing and rejection of renewed hatred.
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The Story
Aimee Umuhoza worked at a coffee plantation in Kigali, picking and cleaning coffee beans. She had lost both parents in the genocide and needed employment to support her younger brother and sister. The low pay did not erase the importance of the work, which gave her a means of sustaining the surviving members of her family.
Aimee understood the plantation as more than a workplace. She described working alongside people who had experienced different forms of loss and said that shared problems made friendship possible. In her account, daily cooperation allowed people from different communities to meet without reproducing the hostility that had marked the past.
“I have been here for two years, and I can’t hate.”
Her testimony links economic activity to reconciliation. The coffee plantation offered a structured environment in which former divisions could be replaced by common work, mutual understanding, and a refusal to sow further hatred.
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