Kigali, Rwanda – On Sunday 15th August 2021, Sustainable Growers Executive Director Christine Condo, as part of an annual commitment for the organization, visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre to pay respects to the victims of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. At Kigali Genocide Memorial at Gisozi, the final resting place for more than 250,000 victims of the Genocide Against the Tutsi, she took a tour of the exhibition and lay a wreath in the Memorial Garden in honor of the millions of victims of the Genocide Against the Tutsis. Sustainable Growers Condo stated, ‘It is our responsibility as society to never let such an atrocity ever happen again. As Sustainable Growers, we believe in preserving the dignity of our people and history to be able to make change for the better.’ Condo visited the Genocide Memorial with several staff members of Sustainable Growers for the third year in a row to mark this occasion as a continued annual exercise for the organization. About Sustainable Growers Sustainable Growers is a non-profit that brings an innovative training component to the coffee business and had a commitment to bring smallholder farmers up the coffee value chain. Sustainable Growers aligns its growth strategies to government visions to unlock the potential of women coops to become leading African entrepreneurs. Providing agricultural training, coffee processing, and market-based skills to women coffee farmers and their families in Rwanda and DRC, and plans to do the same in Tanzania. With the support of funders like Bloomberg Philanthropies, to date Sustainable Growers have enrolled over 40,000 women farmers in training which helped to increase the value of their crops in the first months of training by more than 40%.
