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Etienne Bihogo, 36, who works with PEARL, notes that the co-ops are also helping drive reconciliation between Hutu and Tutsi farmers. Growers who were once enemies are working side by side at their local washing stations. "You can see that people are together now, and they can think in terms of profits," he says, "not in terms of what divides them." --With reporting by Megan Lindow/Cape Town