A cheerful smile smoothly fades away from her brown face as she momentarily becomes speechless. This is her way of responding to questions, an act not so common among people in a similar age bracket. However the current works are even enough to reveal her persona.
Yvette Ishimwe is the winner of the Grand Prize from Accelerate Academy, a project of the NGO 'These Numbers have Faces'. She is set to receive $10,000 (Rwf 7.8 million) investment and training in her new business enterprise called IRIBA water project as the youngest innovative entrepreneur after beating 300 other competitors.
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