Marguerite Niyibituronsa, raised in Burundi and married to a Rwandan, later moved to Rwanda with her family after the genocide. Now the mother of five lives with her family in Kigali, and keeps busy as a researcher at the RAB.
Shortly after becoming a citizen of Rwanda, Niyibituronsa completed a BSc in Human Nutrition at the National University of Rwanda, and then began working as a technician at the RAB. Then, she embarked on a master’s degree in Research Methods at JKUAT. “I want to participate in educating people on the importance of proper nutrition,” she says. “I’m particularly concerned with malnutrition in children under the age of five, since health demographic surveys show that there is still a gap in this age group.
I believe the skills I’ll gain will result in more successful proposals, and I plan to share what I learn with my colleagues.
Field of Research
I recently won a RUFORUM award, for my work on a nutritioneducation project with mothers at health centers in Rwanda.
AWARD Fellows at Laboratory of Food Analysis
Date: June 19, 2017
From October 2016 on, the Laboratory of Food Analysis hosts two AWARD fellows: Mrs. Marguerite Niybituronsa (Ruanda) and Mrs. Ifeoluwa Adekoya (Nee Olotu) (Nigeria). AWARD is a career-development program that since 2008 has equipped top women agricultural scientists across sub-Saharan Africa to accelerate agricultural gains by strengthening their science and leadership skills, through tailored fellowships.