A long stretch of fifteen kilometers’ dirt road lies between the Long Miles Bukeye Washing Station and Giku hill. You have to cross over two rivers and pass by two province borders to get reach here. Although there are many small rivers running through this region, the communities that live here have little access to clean drinking water and are far beyond the reach of electricity. Coffee is the most important crop grown on the hill, closely competing with corn and beans. The fringes of the Kibira Forest, Burundi’s only indigenous rainforest, looms fifty-four kilometers in the distance.
