The Gardens of Peace: How Iwawe Properties Rwanda is Building More Than Homes
The rain had just ceased over Kigali when David Müller first saw the valley. As a Swiss impact investor, he’d spent decades funding eco-projects from Costa Rica to Bhutan, but Rwanda’s emerald hills felt different. War-scarred yet radiantly resilient, this nation mirrored his own quest: to prove that *true returns lay not in extraction, but in restoration. His guide, Muganga Zack, co-founder of Iwawe Properties Rwanda, stood beside him, pointing toward a community where solar panels glinted beside terracotta roofs. "Here," Muganga said, "we build peace, one home at a time." Chapter 1: The Visionary’s Blueprint Muganga Zack wasn’t always a real estate disruptor. In 2015, he co-founded Iwawe Properties with a radical idea: urban housing could be both a human right and a harmony engine . While global developers chased luxury towers, Muganga focused on Rwanda’s "missing middle" – teachers, nurses, artisans – those whose dreams were throttled by unaffordab...