While the effects of the 1994 Rwandan genocide still linger, some survivors have turned the tables on tragedy. In our Small Acts With Big Impact series, we continue our tribute to the artisans of Gahaya Links, the handicraft company that partners with Macy’s on the Rwanda Path to Peace project. Read on to meet one of the artists, Ruth Dusabimana, who has rebuilt her life through the art of basket-weaving.

While the effects of the 1994 Rwandan genocide still linger, survivors have turned the tables on tragedy. In our Small Acts With Big Impact series, we continue our tribute to the artisans of Gahaya Links, the handicraft company that partners with Macy’s on the Rwanda Path to Peace project. Read on to meet one the artists, Nabayo Prisca, who has rebuilt her life through the art of basket-weaving.

There are no words to describe the suffering endured by those who lived to tell about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. 18 years later the effects of the event linger, but survivors have turned the tables on tragedy. In our Small Acts With Big Impact series, we continue our tribute to the artisans of Gahaya Links, the handicraft company which partners with Macy’s on the Rwanda Path to Peace project. Here, another amazing story of a life rebuilt though the art of basket-weaving…

Last month, mBLOG began a series with Janet Nkubana, the founder of Gahayna Links, which partners with Macy’s for the Rwanda Path to Peace project. Through her endeavors, she helps bring the women of her country economic empowerment through the art of basket weaving. Here, Jeanne Uwimpaye, one of the weavers, tells her story of how the organization has changed her life...

Janet Nkubana is the winner of the Hunger Project's "African Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger in 2008" and the founder Gahayna Links, a handicraft company built to bring women economic empowerment in Rwanda. Through Gahayna Links, she has partnered with Macy's for the Rwanda Path to Peace project. Here, she tells her story – from the Rwandan genocide to helping put back together the pieces of a traumatized country...