I came to Congo in July expecting to be depressed and inundated by the capacious problems of this faculty, but sincere to channel on the decipher to join with my son Spencer and allocate a heart in ornament of Dillon Henry. I envisioned dissemination stories about Dillon's spirit with inhabit benefitting from the singular programs funded by the Dillon Henry Initiation in firm with Jewish World Witness.
We did tell stories, but above significantly, we heard the stories of the fearless Congolese who embrace suffered and survived. I departed Congo with a generously proportioned understanding of the profound thought of the issues previously this faculty and an huge initiative for the resiliency and strength of the Congolese people.
"Language with one of the patients from Chambucha"
I am not na"ive - the systemic malignancy, decades of leaders pillaging the country's chance, unexceptional rape that damage women's bodies and souls and destroys families, and the amazing call for, accompanied by miserably unseemly education and just about non-existent infrastructures, requisite be inflexible. These capacious problems that believe a discouraging reality of life in Congo could willingly be my central clutch to one side from my time current. But this gush departed me on tenterhooks, despite the consequences all of these murder, the same as of the fender-bender JWW is having as its community-based allies work to repair lives and train a new time fixed on justice, leadership and gender uniformity.
On this gush I studious a Swahili dictum that translates to "each drop of hosepipe will come together to crowd the container." And so I catch to channel on the introduce somebody to an area we met, the heroes who are fulfilling the container for a better tomorrow. Dr. Mukwege at Panzi Clinic uses his strong essence and muted hands to put in safekeeping the lives of thousands of women whose bodies embrace been in shreds by rape and hurt. Drink his residence BVES, Dr. Namegabe has freed thousands of teenager military and girls who embrace been sexually assaulted by traditional groups, and provides them with a safe retreat, healthcare, treatment, and the prospect of reunification with their families. Camille and Esther Ntoto relinquish for the best unshielded childish in Goma, different of whom are orphans or free teenager military, with pure teaching and after-school programs in leadership and civics that fanatic these students to prediction and appraise to variation the very long curtains of Congo. And Amani Matabaro, JWW's friend on the arena, shaped a hypothetical and a program to help expectant teens in his town in group of his parents who were murdered, yet he is squalidly shocked so students publish that he is their star.
"Visiting the Virunga Gang"
Congo is an self-same rich faculty with the second largest rain forest on this sphere, above than 54% of the untainted hosepipe in Africa, lots acres of arable land to hay above than two billion people, and minerals want for technology consequence trillions of dollars. The Virunga Gang is in action to application natural resources to quadruple the energy for North Kivu, and relinquish new sources of vocation and social armed forces for the million people stimulate in the story line. The opportunities that will pave the pour to a better arrival go on and on.
It is so equal that Dillon Henry's dearest book was "The Dominance of One", the story of a boy who, despite the consequences a significant education, vowed to be situated and stir up brave dreams and variation lives. We witnessed the power of one in DRC - straightforward each of these heroes, and straightforward the childish who are graduating these programs with their own dreams for the arrival of Congo. These are the drops of hosepipe that are fulfilling the container in Congo and this is the principled of prospect that I hire back with me.
I am so esteemed to embrace joint this gush with Diana, Vaughan and Michael - all challenging and tell advocates for JWW. Last but not least, what mom could ask for above than to allot these life-changing two weeks with her son.
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