User:Jéthro Baruka/sandbox

Born in 1987, Grace Baruka started his school early when he was just 3 in a small nursery school in Bunia City, in Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is the first born of an incredible and lovely family of nine children, with good parents. At age 5, he started the primary school at Bassin Primary School, before he joins Complexe scolaire des aigles de Dieu, at Bunia in 1993, where he get his primary certificate with 87%. He was therefore the first ranked purple in the whole state of Ituri (Bunia) and that made him won one year granted when he started the high school in 1999.

By the time, his father, Innocent Baruka, was working for an entrepreneur and professor from Rwanda known under the name of Mutajogiri, as a driver. It hasn’t been easy for Grace Baruka for his father had to spend most of his time away from their home town driving trucks from Bunia to Kisangani and Goma, via Beni and Butembo, transporting drinks. Grace had to grow faster. A few years later, Grace Baruka did go to college at the University of Kisangani, where he studied ecology and natural resources management for five years. He developed a very remarkable attitude in research field while caring out research projects with great professors like Doudou Akaibe, Itoka Mukinzi, etc.

Grace Baruka is one of the best young authors in the field of ecology. He has wrote many books, whose famous ones are les musaraignes de la république démocratique du Congo: Variabilité craniométrique et Structure des populations de Crocidura olivieri et Scutisorex ... et ses environs, RD Congo (Omn.Univ.Europ.) (2010) and Mécanismes de financement pour la conservation de la Biodiversité: Financements des aires protégées en République Démocratique du Congo (Omn.Univ.Europ.) (2015). Before he started working with GIZ as Technical Expert in Nature Conservation and Area Management, he was spending two years doing internship with no salary at international organization like World Wildlife Funds where he worked as Virunga Landscape Officer’s Assistant, in 2017.

In 2013, Grace Baruka went to Alexandria in Egypt for two years studying at the Senghor University. He earned a Master degree (MSc), specializing in the Management of Protected Areas. Back to his country, Grace Baruka, He occupied high and high positions of responsibility in UNESCO, GIZ again. At age 30, Grace Baruka became the Country Coordinator Stabilizing Land use in the protected area at IUCN.