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The second mill serves the same purpose as the first—multifunctional grain processing. These two major mills are designed to support the transformation of various cereals within the project, which is aimed at empowering Indigenous women in the Kalehe territory, South Kivu Province, specifically in Bunyakiri, eastern DRC.

Illustrative images of rice crops sown on fish ponds. These areas will be used for fish farming, a technique that women have learned to prevent climate change, which can be accelerated by certain human activities, including agriculture that does not respect agro-ecological principles. Since women are aware of the factors that influence climate change, including slash-and-burn agriculture and the search for fertile areas that encourage tree felling and facilitate the disappearance of biodiversity and the onset of climate change, the women were trained in fish farming, preceded by rice farming, while respecting the conservation of ecosystems.