Frederick Sibomana and his wife Eugenie Mukandoli pose for a picture. Photos by Moise Bahati
Moise M. Bahati
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
The year 2017 found Eugenie Mukandoli optimistic about her marriage once again like she had been in 1981 when she got married to Frederick Sibomana. For the larger part of their union, Sibomana had been an abusive partner.
But since 2016 when the couple began their ‘journey of change,’ Sibomana has become a more cooperative partner.
Thanks to a series of gender-sensitive sessions by the organisation Rwanda Men’s Resource Centre (RWAMREC), Sibomana, 64, and Mukandoli, 65, got to learn about gender-based violence and its causes.
At their rural home in Save Sector, Gisagara District, a soft-spoken Mukandoli said recently that she had for years remained silent about Sibmana’s behaviour.