It has been 2 years of soul searching, hard work, courage, fear, pain, victory and hope. Lots of hope.
And now,
#SHAPED
is finally here in Kigali.
I invite you to read my story. I pray it inspires you. I hope it encourages you.
I offer you
#SHAPED
because
#OurStoriesMatter
“Corporate headshots can ace first impressions and earn your client's trust. As a leader, these photographs should demonstrate the quality that you deliver daily.” - Adam Jacobs - Fmr Forbes Councils Member.
#RwOT
, to get your very own Corporate Profile photo;🤙🏾
@EmmanuelRurangw
THREAD on
#Kwibuka29
It has been 29 years since the first day that I saw the bodies of our loved ones floating on the Lake Victoria waters. My very young mind immediately started imagining what they had been through to have ended in Uganda through Lake Victoria.💔
I will one day tell my children and children’s children that; ‘RWANDA IS EVERYTHING FOR US AND WE WILL LOVE, WORK AND SERVE HER WITH EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE GOT.’
#Umushyikirano2024
Rest in Eternal Peace Madame la directrice Françoise Nyirantagorama - La Colombière. May your memory always be a blessing. 🙏🏾
Thank you for being such a great vessel that shaped our young minds.
Like Pele once said, success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Nyamara
@BruceMelodie
will bring a Grammy award home some day. Keep up the spirit MUNYAKAZI
🔊BOOK COVER REVEAL📣
Good morning fam!!! I am so excited to present to you the book cover for
#SHAPED
.
What started as an emotional coping mechanism during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, became a potential manuscript. Today, it is a fully fledged book coming out this year.
#RWOT
,a new baby is born! I am soooo excited! 🥰🥰🥰
Recently went into the manufacturing business, and now, LACIA SCENTED CANDLES is in your nearest supermarket.
Murakoze kuturemera muzigura.
Duhumuze aho dutuye. 🥰
#LasciaSCandles
THREAD:
Dear Survivor,
For a very long time, I didn’t know what it meant to mourn with you. I didn’t fully understand your pain and never will I ever fully grasp it. But, I still want to mourn with you.
#Kwibuka27
Praying has sustained me through the darkest seasons of my life, taught me how to rely on Him alone, have faith….and I am glad that He always came through.🙏🏾
I wish you the same. 🥰
📸:
@ZionTempleCC
Travelling with a beaming smile because
#SHAPED
is in the Kigali International Airport bookstore. 🥰
In case you still do not have a copy….DM me why and lets find a solution to this serious issue. 🥰🤣
Barbara Umuhoza expresses her excitement and eagerness to attend
#RwandaDay2024
in Washington DC. She sees this event as a platform to share her thoughts, contribute actively, and engage with the community.
This photo is giving me so many good feels today! Congratulations to these fierce ladies on their graduation today from
@Uni_Rwanda
! May we raise strong women. May we encourage our girls to go for their dreams, even the ones that we think are ‘hard.’ ❤️
Today, I visited my old home for 2 years when I had just arrived in the UK, Margaret Cassidy House on 485 Bath Road.
It was bittersweet. 🙂
A video on that comes out tomorrow.
#ShapedByDecisions
#Shaped
Thread:
#IyaMbereUkwakira
1/6: Today marks the National Patriotism Day and on this same day, we reflect on the gallant men and women who were so patriotic that they gave up everything they had, including their lives to give us a HOME.
#SHAPED
#IyaMbereUkwakira
1/2: Hari byinshi tutajya tubwirwa na bene wacu bimukira mu mahanga ya kure (Uburayi, Amerika na Canada)…ariko burya babaho ubuzima butaboroheye mu myaka ya mbere bakihagera.
Gusura Margaret Cassidy House ejo byanyobukije byinshi nahaboneye mu myaka ya mbere (2) nabaye UK.
Iyo mama wawe ari umunyamakuru….:
1. Umenya inkuru nyinshi no kuzibara hakiri kare.
2. Wiga gu-camera hakiri kare.
3. Guhanga inkuru bitangira kare (Adamu na Eva bihuzwa na Noah).
Dear happy people, joy bringers and everyone’s shoulder to lean on,You too deserve to share your pain. You too deserve a shoulder to lean on. You too deserve to have a day off. You too are loved and you too will not walk alone when you let in someone to walk with you.
#RIPTwitch
I had the honor to experience the Officer Cadets Commissioning Ceremony at the RMA-Gako today.
Mbega! Mbega! Mbega!♥️🇷🇼
(Ndumva abasore banjye nzabashyiramo igitekerezo cyo kujya mu gisirikare.🤔.)
THREAD: 1/5: I recently discovered that there is a correlation between colors and inner expression of self. This oftentimes happens in the subconscious. ☺️
I have been honored to serve different organisations and individuals in different capacities, as a moderator,facilitator,interpreter, author and media personality. This year, 2024, I am doubling the efforts; One step at a time. One brick at a time. One push at a time. Yours Truly
I worked as a Language Assistant at the IRMCT (former ICTR) and among my duties was listening to RTLM audios, transcribing and translating them.
What my ears heard, what my eyes read….I will never find words to describe them. 💔
#Kwibuka30
Today is the day that the Lord has made and I WILL REJOICE IN IT!!!
Uyu ni umunsi Uwiteka yanshyiriye ku isi, angirira neza, nanjye ndawizihirizamo, nishime kandi nezerwe. 🥰
20 years of
@Imbuto
.
What a journey!
Started as PACFA with one single project, now impacting thousands of families including women and youth. Today we sit with
@XandrineUmutoni
to discuss what this journey has been like & future plans.
@IsiboTV
:7pm
Youtube: The Barbara Show
My conversation with
@XandrineUmutoni
D.G of
@Imbuto
was nothing short of Insight, Impact and Inspiration.
If you missed the conversation on
#ImbutoTurns20
; check for it on this link;
Have a great week. 🥰
The Pride. The Joy. The Awe. The Inspiration.
A few descriptions for what I am feeling as I watch
#CHOGM2022
Thank you is not enough but Your Excellency
@PaulKagame
, Murakoze!
Murakoze kutwereka, twe abato ko bishoboka. Inzozi zirakorerwa zigasohora. Murakoze.
#RwandaWorks
A THREAD: Today’s heartbreaking news about the young woman who attempted suicide got me thinking....
What are we doing for the emotionally wounded? Are we listening? Are we intentionally paying attention?
#YouAreNotAlone
#MentalHealth
#EmotionalIssues
30 years ago, as a child, watching the news, I saw the victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Lake Victoria and those images never left my soul.
30 years later, I got to honorably pay tribute to their lives.
A full circle moment for me.
Thank you
@RwandainUganda
.
#DearSurvivor
words of comfort fail me. I sit and ask myself, how can I alleviate your pain? How can I love you more? How can I be there more? More than the
#100Days
of empathy? More than the ‘Mpore’ i post on social media?
Tonight…I think of you dearest. 💔
#DearSurvivor
I always feel the pain in your voice when you say, ‘umunsi batwishe / the day they killed us’…
And I wonder…; ‘but you are alive.’😔
As I grow…each year, I understand that statement better.
Mpore muvandimwe. Barakwishe ntiwapfa. Urakabaho kandi neza. Iteka!♥️
Good morning
#RwOT
!
After 16yrs, I am back in
#London
.
The
#UKHomecomingVisit
is one of the highlights of 2023 and I cannot wait to share with you in video and photos the places that you read in
#SHAPED
!
Stay Tuned!🥰
Living in a time as this, in Rwanda, as a woman is truly a blessing!
The opportunities that we have been afforded in order to serve this great nation and our people are endless. Yesterday was a great honor for me to moderate the
@RwandaWLN
/
@AWLNetwork
- Rwanda Chapter launch.🙏🏾
#RwOX
Gahunda ya 24.12.2023 ya launch ya
#ImbanzamumyambiAlbum
ya
@OfficialMuyango
kuri Camp Kigali mwaba mwayimenye? Jyewe n’ingabo zanjye twatangiye imyitozo…ntimuzabure Benimana!
Keshawn ngo mukore subscribe.🤣
I have often times looked back at my life and wondered what I would have become If I hadn’t experienced each life moment that I did from the day that I was conceived to this day.
These last few days have blown my mind away.
Spending them on a work trip at the
@OOResorts
has drowned me in my feelings, but two of them stand out as I leave;
- Pride: Rwandan Soil is the host of such a great holiday destination. This is ours.
On the weekends, I would go to church to pray, fellowship and minister. Those Sundays gave me the push and strength to keep going.
This Sunday, I will be in Zion Temple Coventry. This branch opened when I was still living here. Fond memories.
#Shaped
#UKHomecomingVisit
#DearSurvivor
, it is the 1st of a 100 nights of terror, nightmares and insurmountable pain.
It is also the 1st night of yet many more nights that we stand with you, pray, love and honor your sacrifice. 🕯
Impore. ♥️
#AppreciationPost
for all of you,
#RwOT
that got
#SHAPED
, read it, shared it, marketed it and even gave me feedback.
You have no idea what that did for me!
You are the real VIPs!
Thank you!♥️
2023 was a hard year. Very hard! But…God’s mercies have allowed us to reach here today, alive!
Praise Him!
I am enjoying a powerful CROSSOVER at the
@bkarenarw
What a 🔥!
I wish you all a Happy New Year
#RwoX
fam.♥️
Moderating 2 back to back breakout sessions at the
#UKRwandaBusiness
Forum was an experience!!!
I mean, how do you go from discussing investment in the MANUFACTURING to GREEN ECONOMY sectors to closing the day off with a reception? Like how? 🤔
Loving the growth. 🥰
Dear God, on this day that we celebrate your birth...please keep Rwandans safe in this heavy downpour of rain. If you stop the rain, we will be very grateful. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Dear You,
#RwOT
;
May 2023 be the year where;
You Hope more.
Believe more.
Laugh more.
Love more.
Grow more.
Feel more.
Signed,
Barbara, wishing you well. ♥️
A few days ago, I had the honor and privilege to give a training on ‘EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TRAINING’ for the Nigerian Federal Character Commission.
One of the keys of Effective Communications is;
COMMUNICATING TO CONNECT.
#TheHustle2024
What an honor it was for me last night to offer
@AmbMukantabana
#SHAPED
.
I am here just living through big full circle moments. 🥰
Because
#OurStoriesMatter
, lets keep finding the strength to share our life journeys. 🙏🏾
Genocide Denial has always been there from the beginning, more so in these days on various social media platforms.
This got me thinking, how do we fight it? As we remember and unite, what can we learn about standing our ground?
#TheBarbaraShow
hosts
@LonzenRugira
#DearSurvivor
nta ‘thread’ ihambaye mfite yo kwandika kuri
#Kwibuka26
. Nzasoma ubuhamya bwawe udusangiza, uhagarariye benshi bataza kuri uru rubuga, ngusubize nti, ‘Mpore cyane. 💔🙏🏾’ Turifatanyije muri ibi bihe.
While moderating the panel, ‘SHIFTING THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT NARRATIVE THROUGH MEDIA’ at the
#YouthConnekt2022
, I got a few take home points:
- Be the change that you want to see as a Media Practiotioner.
- Tell your story! (Maybe I should write another book. 🤔🤣)
#SHAPED