Rooted in beans, rising in business: How a family in Goma is growing bean empire

Rooted in beans, a family in Goma turns a small idea into a thriving business. With support from B4WE, ABECHA is now boosting nutrition, creating jobs, and empowering women farmers across Eastern DRC.

In a city where food insecurity shadows daily life and opportunity feels just out of reach, Sadiki and his wife Huguette dared to see something different in a bean.  Inside a crowded market of Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where rice and maize dominate the stalls and household tables, beans have long been a quiet staple. But to the couple, founders of the agri-enterprise ABECHA, beans were not just food but potential.