Tall and strong from work in her family's subsistence garden, she fought hard, sobbing, screaming, struggling, as three men in succession pried her legs apart and got between them.
Her parents were subsistence farmers in Ndora, a small, neat roadside settlement six miles east of Butare.
While ministers dismiss welfare benefits cases as "generally not of sufficiently high importance to warrant funding", CPAG argues that it "is difficult to think of an issue which is of more importance to an individual than his or her means of subsistence".
Buddhimaya's family, like most in her community, are subsistence farmers and rely on daily wages for survival.
This will enable her to boost the current subsistence farming of her family, create a cooperative and facilitate the establishment of 10 to 15 microenterprises in her community.
Her father was a subsistence farmer.
Her parents, who are subsistence farmers and illiterate, believed assurances she would have a good job and be able to send back her wages.
"I used to travel into Bellingham and buy my sack of coal," she said, standing in sensible shoes on a pebbled beach at a recent tribal news conference, talking about her girlhood of rural subsistence and occasional trips to the nearby market town.
Maxima Acuna from Peru: Ms Acuna, a subsistence farmer, protected her right to continue living off her farmland despite a mining company's plans to develop a gold and copper mine on the site.
We gave her £105 a month for subsistence and phone, plus countless other payments.
