Reconciliation

Reconciliation leaders in Rwanda are Bishop John Rucyahana and his wife Mrs. Harriet Rucyahana.

Bishop John was one of the first pastors to recognize the role community-owned coffee washstations were playing in bringing together coffee growers, genocide perpetrators and survivors.

Today in the hills of Bukonya, Bp. John's church has procurred and donated property for Land of a Thousand Hills to build a community coffee wash station for the local growers. Around the country, farmers who were once hiding in the coffee growing hills are now working alongside the same neighbors that once perscecuted them. They are working for coffee, working for reconciliation, working for progress!

Sales from Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee in the US not only provide platforms for Rwandan coffee growers to forgive one another; but also bring together widows from the Twa, Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups.

Known as Inyakurama or Trinity, over 150 of these widows are working hard in their local community to restore their lives emotionally, spiritually and economically. Their hard work also allows them to receive Microfinance loans to start small businesses, which in many cases mean the difference between a sustainable life and death.

To learn more about the Inkyakurama Microfianance program, click here.