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"Women's Work" (filme do Washington Post)
Female entrepreneurs in in Maraba built thriving coffee farms and other successful businesses as society transformed in the wake of Rwanda's genocide.

Aqui, o artigo de fundo:
"Women Rise in Rwanda's Economic Revival" por Anthony Faiola.

Um excerto:
"As both female and male survivors sought to rebuild coffee plantations with financial and technical assistance from international organizations, Maraba's women, most trying their hands at the business of farming for the first time, were by far the faster students. They showed more willingness than men, officials here said, to embrace new techniques aimed at improving quality and profit. Now, Maraba's female farmers are outdoing their male counterparts in both, numbering about half of all farmers in the village's coffee cooperative but producing 90 percent of its finest quality beans for export.
The march of female entrepreneurialism, playing out here and across Rwanda in industries from agribusiness to tourism, has proved to be a windfall for efforts to rebuild the nation and fight poverty. Women more than men invest profits in the family, renovate homes, improve nutrition, increase savings rates and spend on children's education, officials here said. "
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