DRC victims: The type of groups we want you to know about.
- Toza Batu Pe!
- Oct 17, 2017
- 2 min read
She is a strong Congolese woman, mother of three amazing children. As of today, she is reduced to almost nothing; she has lost her husband, brother, and father during their fight to free their beloved nation. She has also lost her home and even her dignity to this unjust government and these numerous civil wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
But she is still going strong because she feels the need to put a front for her children to still get the sense of being "okay".
Her hair is constantly messy, so she chooses to always hide them under this piece of cloth repurposed as a head-wrap. Her hands are bruised primarily because she now has to play the role of her now murdered husband around this abandoned and rusty freight container that she uses with her children as a home. She has bags under her eyes, not only because every day she has to fight to keep her small table at the local market , but at night, she waits until her kids are finally asleep, lying on the floor, to proceed to her regular 'crying session'.
She was forced our their home because, well the so-called government can do that! It did so without even offering either an explanation or small compensation. Her children do not have any more access to proper education. Therefore, they are reduced to selling everything they can: from plastic bags filled with tap water, recyclable objects, to anything they can steal or find on the ground just so they could all eat something.
This mother doesn't feel like you and me; to her, everything and everyone is against her. She feels as if she doesn't have a voice or that the rest of the World has become numb to her cries. She feels abandoned, mostly because those who promised her protection, jobs, security, joy, and more were only giving promises to get elected. She is unsure about whom to turn to, she has lost complete faith in the DRC's political class.
She is now just looking for hope and piece; she is in search of something she can hold on to. She is tired, but also strong in her heart; without hiding that she is in desperate needs of massive help and support.
She didn't always use to be this way; but her country's injustice and oppression brought her here, and still continues to pull her down.
If there is one thing she wants people around the Globe to remember, is that she is a HUMAN TOO!
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