Jeanne Kugiza Ivara is following in her late father’s footsteps, studying natural sciences in CEGEP.
“My father was the best father that I could ever ask for,” she said. “He was someone who really meant a lot to me.”
She said she wishes he was still here to help her with her studies, but Désiré Buna Ivara died in 2020 — just short of earning his PhD. The 50-year-old spent a month in a coma after contracting COVID-19 from his wife, Amoti Furaha Lusi.
Furaha Lusi said she caught the virus from working in a long-term care home as the first wave of the pandemic
