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Nyamirambo Women\u2019s Centre teaches tourists food, crafts and history of Rwanda <\/b><\/p>\n
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By\u00a0<\/strong>Karen Kwok and Jack Lung<\/b><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.23.3″ text_font=”Roboto||||||||” text_text_align=”left” header_font=”||||||||” header_6_font=”Roboto|700|on||||||” header_6_font_size=”12px”]<\/p>\n A group of tourists in bright aprons chop amaranth leaves, peel cassava and soak green bananas on a long wooden table while metal pots simmer on small charcoal burners in the outdoor courtyard of chef Aminatha’s home.<\/p>\n The Rwandan cooking class starts with the preparation and ends with a group feast. It\u2019s one of three classes run for tourists by the Nyamirambo Women\u2019s Centre, a non-governmental organization launched at 2017 by 18 Rwandese women. The centre educates and trains women in the hopes they can get better jobs. It also address gender-based violence, gender inequality and discrimination.<\/p>\n Most of dishes are vegetables. \u201cIn Rwanda , most of the people are vegetarian because vegetables are easy to get. Regular meat is not available. They love to mix thing together and most of dishes don\u2019t have specific names and people just mention the main ingredient,\u201d said Kevine, 22, who has worked at the centre for a year.<\/p>\n Just down the street, a group of women sit on the floor teaching more tourists how to weave. Most are making colourful earrings. In shop, brightly coloured children\u2019s clothes and handicrafts are for sale.<\/p>\n \u201cWe teach women how to read and write that do help them to find job and teach the local people how to treat women right,\u201d said Mary Nyangoma, vice president of the centre and one of the founding members.<\/p>\n The centre also gives walking tours, which start with a traditional snack, a Kinyarwanda language lesson and an introduction to the centre. \u00a0The centre is in the Nyamirambo neighbourhood, a lively area where most of the city\u2019s Muslims live. The old district is dotted with mosques and colourful houses.<\/p>\n \u201cThe salary of the centre is much better than outside,\u201d said Kevine who started at the centre after finishing secondary school.<\/p>\n \u201cNyamirambo Women\u2019s Centre do give a chance for women to learn and help them to find a better job,\u201d said Ms. Nyangoma.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_5″ _builder_version=”3.23.3″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.23.3″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.23.3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/women1.jpg” _builder_version=”3.23.3″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.23.3″ text_font=”Roboto|700|on||||||” text_text_align=”left” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”20px” custom_margin=”-20px||”]<\/p>\n The Nyamirambo Women\u2019s Center, in the oldest area in Kigali, has helped approximately 500 Rwandan women. The center practices community-based tourism with classes on traditional culture and customs and trains women in sustainable crafts.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_0082_web.jpg” _builder_version=”3.23.3″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.23.3″ text_font=”Roboto|700|on||||||” text_text_align=”left” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”20px” custom_margin=”-20px||”]<\/p>\n A woman from the centre holds up dodo, <\/em>the word for\u00a0amaranth leaves, for a cooking class held by the center. The dodo is cooked with onions and peanut flour.\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_0092_web.jpg” _builder_version=”3.23.3″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_0097_web.jpg” _builder_version=”3.23.3″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_0064_web.jpg” _builder_version=”3.23.3″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Karen Kwok and Jack Lung<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-articles-2","category-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwandareports.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}