Joselyne ABIMANA holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Biotechnology department; Option of Food Biotechnology at INES Ruhengeri. She is a Mastercard Foundation Scholar Alumni under the program of FAWE Rwanda from 2016 to 2023. She was born and raised in Rwanda. Before joining CorpsAfrica, she previously worked as a Site Leader at Loveway Rwanda Company Ltd in Musanze District from March –July 2024. She has been a Professional Internee at HingAmafaranga Rwanda NGO where she worked with rural communities within her cell in the promotion of monetized agriculture for 6 months. During her academics, she did an academic internship in INES Ruhengeri Food Processing, Microbiology, and Physiochemical Laboratories for 2 months in 2022 and in MUGENZI Trading Group Company Ltd which has been a wine manufacturing industry since 2023. She is passionate about agro-food-related activities mainly those adding value to agricultural production harvests to have a positive contribution to the eradication of food insecurity in Rwanda as well as in Africa. She was both a leader and a member of different clubs like the health and environmental clubs in secondary school. She has initiated youth youth-based saving group named “RUSEBEYA’S YOUTH FOR POSITIVE CHANGES” since 2019 during COVID-19 which has helped more than 40 youths to be financially resilient during and after the pandemic. She has been among the winners of different project competitions based on food during her Bachelors in INES RUHENGERI, proven with the certificates. She has been the 2nd among the 12 winners of the project at an institutional level with the project of adding value to sweet potatoes by processing them into the flour used in porridge making as well as in baking. She has been also the 3rd among six winners of the project competitions that were organized by INES RUHENGERI in partnership with Mastercard Foundation with the project of producing herbal tea that works for the prevention of non-communicable diseases from our locally grown herbs like ginger, lemon grass, magaru, hibiscus, etc. She is now delighted and eager to serve the community to the maximum of her capacity as the CorpsAfrica/Rwanda Volunteer in cohort 6. In her daily life, she is always motivated by the belief that, nothing else better than adding value to people.