A Brooklyn-based, all-natural ice cream parlor Blue Marble has collaborated with a US-based nonprofit, Business Council for Peace, to help Rwanadan female entrepreneurs to open up a local ice cream parlor, Inzozi Nziza. Blue Marble also provides the all-female staff of Inzozi Nziza with English lessons and intensive training in business and financial management. The parlor acts not only as a local business, but also as a forum for community engagement.
In addition to the ice cream parlor, one of the founding entrepreneurs wanted to create a healing space for widows and orphans after the war, so she founded the country's only all-women drumming group, Ingoma Nshya. Historically, this was a male domain. This drumming group further pushes boundaries by incorporating members from both sides of the 1994 genocide.
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