Beni, July 13th, 2025 (CPA). – Fifty (50) internally displaced women and girls with disabilities have been trained in farming, marketing and entrepreneurship in the rabbit industry during the first phase of a training course that ended on Sunday in Beni, Nord-Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
“The aim of this project is to strengthen socio-economic resilience through rabbit farming. We have seen that these displaced women face many economic challenges, which is why we have wanted to equip them with the necessary tools. The choice of rabbits is explained by their high productivity: with a gestation period of one month, they can reproduce up to five times a year, » has declared Emmanuel Kakule Syayukumbita, chairman of the board of directors of the Congolese Agency for the Promotion of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPADPH). “These women and girls will be able to consume part of their production and sell the rest to start and diversify their income-generating activities (IGAs), thereby, they will gain autonomy and return to a normal life”, he has added.
At the end of the training, each participant has received a cage of double place, two female rabbits and one male rabbit, as well as veterinary services for one year. The chairman of CPADPH board of directors has called on the authorities to increase funding for this vulnerable population in order to support their resilience despite their reduced mobility. The city of Beni currently has around 500 internally displaced persons with disabilities, including more than 250 who are locally established and 200 who have recently arrived from Goma. CPA /