From grass to grace; Patricia Mukamazimpaka‘s journey

Patricia Mukamazimpaka isn’t what one would call an educated woman. But her confidence has taken her places. She has travelled to places where she couldn’t even speak the language. She is a graduate of the Women for Women International Rwanda’s Women of Economic Empowerment programme  specialising in crafts. “I was so unfortunate to lose my mother when I was still so young. I was raised by my grandmother who also died when I was eight. I never met my father since no one knew who he was. After my grandmother’s death, my maternal uncle took on the responsibility of taking care of me and that is when I experienced hell on earth. He always called me a bastard,” Mukamazimpaka narrates.