Posts tagged children
Posts tagged children
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We’ve entered Goma Prison, gone on site visits to programs in villages outside the city, interviewed a former child soldier and a young woman who was a victim of sexual violence when her village was attacked, taken the fast boat to Bukavu, done site visits at 3 different villages in the hills surrounding this city on the southern end of Lake Kivu, visited the General Hospital and seen 2 different programs within the city confines. It’s exhausting and heartbreaking and heartwarming all at the same time. Take a few minutes to read some of the posts here that further describe where we’ve been and what we’ve been doing. Every one of them is elegantly written and deeply touching. This is one amazing JWW team…
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It is 8AM as we enter the men’s prison in Goma, a massive concrete
structure towering over the stone and cardboard huts that make up the
city. The stench is overpowering as we cross the threshold. We are
ushered into the courtyard and led to a row of seats in the middle of
1200 prisoners. The scene is virtually indescribable. We are surrounded
by men, many of whom perpetrate the sexual violence about which we have heard so much.
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CAMME - Training and Refuge for forgotten children
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It is Shabbat in Goma. A Shabbat like no other…
Today we visited the rape ward at Heal Africa. As we entered, we saw 20 women and girls—14 to 60 years old—laying flat on their backs attached to buckets at the base of their beds by a rubber tube. The stench of the fluids leaving their bodies was potent. As we entered, the mood was profoundly somber.
