Umuco Love’s Historic Background

Umuco Love is a non-profit organization that focuses its efforts on bringing cultural understanding among people from all backgrounds using storytelling as a tool. Our goal is to pierce the divisive wall that exists in much of our society.

We are a non profit organization, started in Rwanda back in 2012 as a way for young Rwandan women to share their talent and help themselves heal. The majority of them were survivors of Tutsis Genocide in Rwanda that had devastated the country and its people.

Our founder Dydine Umunyana later moved to California where she realized that humanity shares the same history and that we all need to be empowered, heal and a space to feel seen, heard and felt. As the new culture of American racial inequality, social inequality looked and felt a lot like how the ethnic inequality felt back in her own country, so she began and new journey of sharing her survivor story to showcase that the human spirit is so strong that it will never truly be squashed.

She Joined In forces with Alex Anderson and so Umuco Love a Healing Center was Born to recognize positivity and amplify those voices.

Our founders growing up in two different cultures, Alex, a black man from Texas and Dydine a child genocide survivor from Rwanda both moved to Los Angeles in search for more... They both learned from their own cultures as well as the melting pot of cultures that is LA. From there they both cultivated a sense of wonder and curiosity to bring the values of a multi-cultural world to different people who may not have otherwise had the opportunity to learn about them. And so Umuco Love was would perhaps be the key to unite our humanity as a whole.

Since 2019 they have been hosting Umuco Podcast fostering their mission to grow and connect the world by having conversations and discovering the truths of one another and our own culture on the Umuco Podcast.