A Plumbing Course Changes Beatrice's Life

In 2011, Beatrice was just another statistic. As one of the 29 percent of young women affected by youth unemployment in Rwanda, her dream was not to have a white collar job in the city like many of her peers, but to become a skilled plumber.

“I am an orphan, my father died in 1999, and I remained with my Mother and 4 siblings. We barely survived by growing beans and cassava on a very small piece of land, and working for our neighbors to earn money for food. Neither I, nor my mother, could afford to pay school fees for my younger siblings,” she explains.


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