Photo Share: The power of doughnuts, Congo

Photo: Sinziana Demian/IRC

The International Rescue Committee works with 13 grassroots women’s organizations in North Kivu, a province in eastern Congo afflicted by ongoing conflict. We support these groups' initiatives to assist and empower vulnerable women in their own communities. Group members take free reading and writing classes, learn how to sew and knit, and how to cultivate land and raise animals. They also run small businesses, such as producing and selling beignets – doughnuts they sell for 10 cents a piece to earn money for things their families need.