About Me
“Umurage w' Ineza” - Legacy of Kindness
My Story
I was born and raised in Rwanda, aka the Land of Thousand Hills. I was lucky to survive the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis that shook my whole country and claimed close to one million lives. My husband, my parents, four of my siblings and my extended family, many friends, coworkers and neighbors were murdered in cold blood. No goodbyes, no funerals. The community as I knew it was gone.
In 1996, I immigrate to the United States as a refugee. I learned English, went to school for a different career while heading a household of five.
Now than I am a grandmother, I find myself reminiscent of my own childhood, my life as a whole; places I lived, people I met, challenges overcame, lessons learned, and all the memories made. Especially I think about my family and their untold stories. I believe it is time to share them.
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Fast forward to 2016, I remarried and moved to live in a new city (real City this time). I was able to take some time off from my career to recharge and get familiar with my new life and new home. Then 2020 and the Covid19. I found myself solving a different problem. Will I call it a third career? Or simply a continuity of my life of service and impacting community. In any case Mukesha.co is now part of my unfolding story.
The hills I grew up in without the people and homes who used to be there.
Me visiting with my brother and cousins in 2019.