Claudia Enzonzi Mbano, 27, one of the captains of the Bateau Emmanuel 3, skippers the boat across Lake Kivu, taking up to 100 passengers about 130 kilometers (81 miles) between Goma and Bukavu in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mbano, a recent graduate of Université du Lac Tanganyika in Bujumbura, Burundi, is the only woman among nearly 200 captains in command of boats on Lake Kivu.
Esther Nsapu, GPJ DRC
Claudia Enzonzi Mbano, 27, one of the captains of the Bateau Emmanuel 3, skippers the boat across Lake Kivu, taking up to 100 passengers about 130 kilometers (81 miles) between Goma and Bukavu in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mbano, a recent graduate of Université du Lac Tanganyika in Bujumbura, Burundi, is the only woman among nearly 200 captains in command of boats on Lake Kivu.
Esther Nsapu, GPJ DRC
Claudia Enzonzi Mbano, 27, one of the captains of the Bateau Emmanuel 3, skippers the boat across Lake Kivu, taking up to 100 passengers about 130 kilometers (81 miles) between Goma and Bukavu in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mbano, a recent graduate of Université du Lac Tanganyika in Bujumbura, Burundi, is the only woman among nearly 200 captains in command of boats on Lake Kivu.
