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• W320434951 abstract "Congo Aid/Moorhead THE RIGHT KIND OF GOOD Foreign Aid Helps Congolese Women but It Can’t Fix Their Broken Country On a warm morning last August, the kind when the air is sweet with a dewy humidity and the sun bathes the skin instead of burning it, Helina Nyirabikari and her family gathered what they could carry on their backs and fled from the upheaval of violence in their homeland--the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. With the warmth of the sun on their faces, they headed east in search of safety. But as they moved quietly beneath the towering canopy of the forest, three armed men, two in uniform, discovered them. Her family scattered but 60-year-old Nyirabikari, moving slowly because of abdominal pains, lagged behind. She was taken captive. The attackers threw Niyirabikari to the ground. She tried to kick them away but the men overpowered her, forcing her strong legs down, beating them until blood pulsed from her shins and she lost the strength to resist. Six hours later, after each of them had taken their turn, they set her free. Bewildered and in excruciating pain, she got to her feet, blood still streaming from her legs, and limped away, surrounded by lush green foliage and tall trees, guided only by the direction of the sun. “I walked until I couldn’t walk anymore,” she says. Nyirabikari’s story is one that’s all too common in the Congo. This particular attack was likely part of an organized roundup of people that spanned a few days in July and August of last year. While the majority of the country enjoys relative peace, those who remain in the eastern region are still plagued by ongoing violence, as opportunistic groups form and battle over control of Congo’s rich mineral reserves. Rape is one of the many methods the warring parties use to destabilize the region and gain power. The moment Nyirabikari was taken captive also marked the last time she would see her three sons alive. “My husband insisted on going back to look for them,” she says. So three weeks later he disappeared back under the canopy, eventually discovering the decomposing bodies of three men he believed were their sons. After the gang rape, Nyirabikari was treated by an international humanitarian agency, Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE), through a project it established in the area called Tumaini (“hope” in Swahili). CARE has been operating in the Masisi area since 2009 and is currently receiving funding from the UN for various health-related projects. Nyirabikari, her husband and their remaining children now live in an Internally Displaced Peoples (IDP) camp in the high-mountain town of Kitchanga, at about 8,000 feet above sea level, in North Kivu. “Counselors (at Tumaini) tell us to release our minds and not dwell on the past,” Nyirabikari says. But for Nyirabikari the past isn’t over. Nor is it for many other Congolese women. According to the UN, over 8,000 women in the Kivus reported being sexually assaulted in 2009. And today, after 15 years of instability, crimes of sexual violence continue to be committed with almost complete impunity, according to the American Bar Association, which has offices in Goma. To an outsider, these numbers might make Congo look like a country in perpetual, universal despair. But travelling along a lakeside road in Goma tells a different story, one of comfort and safety. Humanitarian aid compounds and private properties built and rented out to Westerners hide behind heavily guarded iron gates with spectacular views" @default.
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