Inzozi Nziza was opened by the theater director Odile Gakire Katese. She met Alexis Miesen and Jennie Dundas, co-founders of Blue Marble Ice Cream in Brooklyn, New York, and formed a partnership with them to open the shop in 2010. “An ice-cream shop, Katese said, might help to put the human pieces back together by rebuilding spirits, hopes and family traditions,” Miesen says. At the start, Miesen and Dundas owned the shop in partnership with its staff and had shares in the business, which is a cooperative and non-profit. After 18 months, they transferred their shares to the women, who had by then proved they could run the business.
What happened in 2010?
A partnership was formed to open an ice cream shop Alexis Miesen and Jennie Dundas co-founded Blue Marble Ice Cream Women workers received shares of Inzozi Nziza Inzozi Nziza became the most popular dessert shop in Rwanda