Judith Mutamba recalls at a very early age losing her father and four siblings due to the uprising in Rwanda. She wanted to be in Rwanda and wanted Rwanda to be free, so at a young age she was one of the first to to join the fighting. She heard that if you got training, the instructor would make you his wife. They thought she had served in the military in Uganda, but instead she trained herself and “added some age” to her 14 years so she would be accepted. It was guerilla fighting with hand-to-hand combat. Eventually she became company commander and then captain. After the war, she was the only woman who received a medal and was the best in the training and one of the best fighters in the infantry. She always competed with men. After leaving the military, she started a church in Rwanda with now more than 100 people. Through the church, Judith trains women to empower themselves. Judith also owns a tour company called Amazing Eco-Africa. Today, she knows “we are all Rwandans.”
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