Blog: Dispatches from Bukavu and Beyond

Marie-Jeanne Bachu Bahati Nyenyezi: “Empower Change in Communities”


Program Director Marie-Jeanne Bachu Bahati Nyenyezi describes her approach to empowering the women at City of Joy to become fierce leaders. “For me the great discovery is to realize that the Congolese women, despite their low familial status, if they are given good trainers who teach them to know and defend their rights, to get self confidence and learn how to make things in order to earn their lives, they can do anything.”