Congo-Kinshasa: Market Gardening Provides Livelihoods for Refugees in DRC

21 February 2013

Goma — Standing behind her market stall in Masisu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which overflows with cabbages, carrots and onions, Marceline Dusabe does not fit the traditional profile of an internally displaced person. She, unlike many others displaced by the internal conflict in North Kivu, is not in need of food aid.

In fact, thanks to the money that she and her husband both earn from selling the produce they grow, they are even able to live in the privacy of their own home - progress that Dusabe's husband, Jules Birigimana, is particularly proud of.

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