The IRC in Boise

Gahigiro Salima became a refugee in 1972 when a wave of ethnic violence engulfed her country of Burundi.  She fled to Rwanda, and later to to a refugee camp in Tanzania.  In 2007, she and her four children were resettled by the IRC in Boise. She has steadily acquired skills which have helped her get a full time housekeeping job at  Shilo Inn and is now able to provide for her family.