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The association for medical students in the University of Rwanda (MEDSAR) gave two cows of Frisian type to the former sex workers that are now in Abiyemejeguhinduka cooperative at Tumba sector offices on Friday the 17^th.Nov.2012.

This act was done after many other things that MEDSAR students did to this cooperative of ex-sex workers including basket weaving and hairdressing and pedicure and manicure.

Antoine Habiyambere the President MEDSAR says that supporting this cooperative has been their goal since they got them out of prostitution near the university. This comes hand in hand with the mission of MEDSAR which teaches people about reproductive health, effects and prevention of HIV/AIDS and family planning.

Since most women say they are in prostitution due to poverty, MEDSAR taught them to work by training them in technical skills which provides income to them and also advices them on the agriculture this cooperative does.

They were given cows to provide them with manure to boost their farming and they will keep distributing the offspring of these cows among the cooperative members till each one of them owns a cow and there no member will go back to prostitution due to poverty.

The president of the cooperative of ex-sex workers says that all members are 28 women. They stopped prostitution completely and now they are sensitizing other young girls in prostitution to join their cooperative. Their aim is to reduce the number of people getting AIDS from prostitution and never to regret the path they chose later on in life.

Ishyirahamwe ry’abanyeshuri ba Kaminuza y’u Rwanda biga mu ishami ry’ubuvuzi, bagabiye inka abahoze bakora umwuga w’uburaya bakawuvamo, ubu bibumbiye muri Koperative Abiyemejeguhinduka. Igikorwa cyo kubashyikiriza izi nka cyabereye ku biro by’Umurenge wa Tumba, kuwa gatandatu tariki ya 17 Ugushyingo.

Inka ebyiri zo mu bwoko bwa frizone ku rugero rwa 75% ni zo MEDSAR yashyikirije Abiyemejeguhinduka. Iki gikorwa kije cyiyongera ku bindi byinshi aba banyeshuri ba Kaminuza bagiriye iri shyirahamwe harimo kubigisha kuboha uduseke, no gutunganya imisatsi y’abagore ndetse n’inzara, n’ubu bakaba bakibyiga.

Perezida wa MEDSAR, Habiyambere Antoine, avuga ko gufasha Abiyemejeguhinduka atari ibya none gusa. Ngo byatangiye ibafasha kuva mu mwuga w’uburaya. Icyo gihe yari igamije gukuraho ikibazo cy’uburaya hafi ya Kaminuza, cyane ko hari abanyeshuri indaya zicaga.

Ibi byanahuje ko n’ubundi mu bikorwa bya MEDSAR harimo kwigisha abantu iby’ubuzima bw’imyororokere, ububi bwa Sida no kuyireka ndetse no kuboneza urubyaro.

Kubera ko aba bagore bavugaga ko uburaya babuterwa n’ubukene, MEDSAR yabafashije kwiga kuboha uduseke, nyamara baje kutuburira isoko nuko bamwe batangira gusubira mu buraya. Ibi rero byatumye MEDSAR yiga umushinga mushyashya wo kubafasha kwiga imyuga itabura isoko (gutunganya imisatsi n’inzara), ndetse bakanabagira inama mu bijyanye n’ubuhinzi n’ubworozi koperative yabo ikora.

Izi nka rero babahaye ni izo kubafasha kubona ifumbire yo gushyira mu mirima yabo. Buke buke kandi bazagenda borozanya, ku buryo hari icyizere ko nta wuzongera gutekereza gusubira mu buraya abitewe n’ubukene.

Umuyobozi wa Koperative Abiyemeje guhinduka, avuga ko bose hamwe ari 28. Ngo baretse umwuga w’uburaya burundu, ku buryo batangiye no kwiyegereza abakiri batoya bari babaye indaya, bakabakira muri koperative yabo. Intego yabo ngo ni ukubarinda kuzandura Sida ndetse no kuzabaho bicuza inzira banyuzemo bakiri bato nk’uko na bo ubwabo batabyishimiye.