N.B. father and son cultivate peace through Africamani Community Garden
Global News
The peace garden located at the entrance to Mapleton Park in Moncton, N.B., set out to provide vegetables from their homeland to fellow newcomers from Africa, but it has grown.
A New Brunswick father and son are sowing seeds of peace by helping newcomers who are seeking refuge from conflict and unrest around the world find their roots in Canada.
The Africamani Community Garden in Moncton was founded by Theophile Mirimo in 2008. Mirimo fled the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo and settled in Moncton in 2002.
“More than 25 years of war, every day people are dying every day,” he said of his home country.
The peace garden, located at the entrance to Mapleton Park, was intended to provide vegetables from their homeland to fellow newcomers from Africa.
“It was really hard to find vegetables and things that would connect us to back home,” said Mirimo’s son Samy Mpunge.
He said the garden has since grown into a place of comfort for newcomers fleeing conflict and war zones.
“The garden is basically a peace garden to help people heal from what they ran away from,” said Mpunge.
Having experienced the hardships of conflict firsthand, Mirimo said that he understands the profound impact escaping a war zone to settle in a new country has on individuals and their families.
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