Among other things, the beneficiaries say that they left the darkness and problems they used to have as a result of lack of electricity.
The head of REG branch in Rutsiro District Eng. Dominique Bakenerinzungu said that since last year, the goal was to provide electricity to 2000 households within at least one year, but they exceeded expectations and won an award.
In 2017-2018, REG aimed at providing 2100 households with electricity, exceeded them to 5236. The first five months of the year ended with 2821 households having received electricity.
“There has been prosperity and well-being. Health centres that didn’t have electricity were challenged by not being able to keep drugs, but now it has been resolved,” Eng. Bakenerinzungu said.
He also explained that the new Rutsiro District office and hotel have been given electricity, and residents have begun tapping it.
When IGIHE visited the beneficiaries, they said that their lives have been transformed and some have started tapping it, doing business that did would not have been possible before they were given electricity.
Alexis Barisemera of Gihango Sector said: “We used to live in the dark before and lit with burning firewood, but now we press the switch on the wall to get light.”
“It took us a two-hour walk to places where we got electricity before to charge our mobile phones, but since the president gave us electricity, we have been happy,” he said.
REG branch in Rutsiro District with 75,790 households announces that 31.9% of households have electricity. The goal is that by 2024, all households will have electricity.
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