"I’ve always said that being a social worker isn’t just about giving. One receives much in return."

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“I’ve tried to catch up, often on the Internet, which offers many opportunities if you have the time and patience.”

“Writing, to me, also means lending my pen to those with no access to literature.”

“Becoming a social worker was without a doubt the only choice of my life. I believed that it would allow me to bring knowledge to those who had been excluded in the villages, to be their spokesperson with local authorities, and to extricate them from their marginalisation.”

“The beauty of Rwanda’s landscape, which invites viewers to discover the country from a different perspective than that of the genocide.”

“I prefer to call myself a storyteller, as Rwandan mothers should be, because, as the saying goes, The one who tells a story has no hatred in their heart.”

“My father, who did not know French, demanded that his children speak ‘a beautiful Kinyarwanda’. No doubt I inherited my care for language from him.”

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