Beekeeping as Hope in Goma, DRC

It is six in the morning and dawn breaks in Mugunga, 10 minutes from the center of Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Isaac Habyarimana helps Esther Habyarimana finish putting on her suit. Father and daughter work in beekeeping in this paradise of valleys and forests. No one would say that, less than 10 kilometers away, a war is taking place. Isaac Habyarimana, 54 years old, began practicing beekeeping at the age of 12. He started studying Biology until in 1996 the war intervened: the rebel group led by Laurent Desiré Kabila at that time occupied Masisi, his hometown. They wanted to recruit him, he recounts, and he escaped. He decided to go to Goma, the capital of North Kivu, considered one of the most biodiverse regions in the world.