Rwanda: Innovative Businesses to Instill Entrepreneurship Spirit

Amidst unemployment affecting a great part of active population, officials say the only way to tackle it is to strengthen Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Special programs are set up to support entrepreneurs with innovative ideas.

In Nyange sector, Musanze district, you find a woman mashing different biodegradable materials together, pressing it into a tightly packed mass and setting it out to dry for several days. While the raw materials are not expensive, and the production doesn't cost much, the finished product is very lucrative. Cecile Nyirabahutu has found a way to manufacture fuel briquettes made of old paper and other garbage.

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