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VOICES FROM THE FIELDTHE IRC BLOG
Wake Up Call: Jean-Marie Toro Mataboro - Bukavu, Congo
December 22, 2010
By The IRC
From California to Congo, women and girls face unspeakable violence and abuse. Yet each day women and men are fighting to boldly reimagine a safer world. Find out what keeps them going despite incredible obstacles — check back each Wednesday for a new story from our just-launched Web site, The Wake Up Call.
"I was working with the IRC. They brought me a young girl who was thirteen years old. She had just been taken by rebel groups. These men forced her to stay in the forest with them for three months."
- The International Rescue Committee’s Jean-Marie Toro Mataboro, telling the harrowing story of a young girl kept as a sex slave by rebels in Congo and describing the various ways -- medical, psycholocal, social and educational -- the IRC helped her heal.
Watch and listen to Jean-Marie's story, and share your own wake up call.
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I am a Uganda by Nationality
I am a Uganda by Nationality a Student of "East African School of Diplomacy, Governance and Human Rights" Nkozi University.
I am so great with work of Human Rights Organizations rendering is saving the lives of people.
This work done is not done to assist the people only, but still fulfilling God's desire to help man. It is done God but not as people. So it is my prayer that "may God intervene in what his creatures are passing through in the whole world.
Let even the "Individuals" work hand in hand with the Inter-governmental Organizations. Nongovernmental Organizations and Community Based Organizations.
Let us help the government to sort out differences amongst themselves. Let not the horrors of the First and Second Wold War repeat.
Let the African leaders work as members of the same family regardless of differences in Religions (culture).
Let us forget differences in location and colonial influences among the African leaders. Let work as an African species not influenced by race.
God created Man as Man, this same man in Africa is the Man in other continents.
We can not develop in Africa if we continue in endless conflicts we shall remain behind in all sectors, science technology, our economy shall remain behind. We shall live in continuous vicious cycle of poverty.
Let us all advocate for "Peace, Security, Unity" without segregation.
"For God and my Country"
Bagheni Katsere Lawrence
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