UNDER CONSTRUCTION
High Quality Essential Oils
Made in Rwanda
Ikirezi Natural Products is a community-interest business that produces high quality essential oils and other natural plant products in partnership with rural farmers in Rwanda.
Ikirezi's vision is to be a leading producer of high quality essential oils and natural plant products that maximizes profits to small farmers, holistically transforms communities, and strengthens agribusiness in Rwanda.
Widows can find hope to live again
OUR VISION
Orphaned young adults can see a brighter future
The poor can live dignified lives
OUR VALUES
UBUNTU: Grace, humility and compassion
DIGNITY: The worth of each individual
SUSTAINABILITY: For individuals, community, Rwanda and the environment
COLLABORATION: Fostering strategic partnerships
COMMUNITY: Holistically impacting communities
OUR ESSENTIAL OILS
Dr. Nicholas HITIMANA
Managing Director
Dinah IGIRANEZA
Accountant
Pamela UMUTONIWASE
Administrator
Sandrine KABIBI
Sales and Marketing Officer
Deborah KAYITESI
Sales and Marketing Assistant officer
William RUKUNDO
Production Supervisor
IMPACT STORIES
With wages earned working on Ikirezi geranium farm sites, many farmers have been able to improve their livelihood and have a more dignified life they could not have afforded otherwise due to scarcity of jobs in the country side . Some of their stories told here below are a reminder that no work is negligible and that even through work on a farming site like those of Ikirezi, one can, not only earn a living but register remarkable developmental progress.
THE FARMERS
The story of Alphonsine
Alphonsine Mukanziza is in her early sixties. Over two decades ago, she moved to Gahara from the Southern part of Rwanda running away from an abusive husband who used to beat her up badly especially when he was drunk. Alphonsine was welcomed by a relative who was living in Gahara near where Ikirezi’s farm is located. A few months after her arrival in this new countryside she got remarried to a man who had just lost his wife…….Read more (PDF)
The story of Josephine (PDF)
The story of Liliane (PDF)
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