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  • Day 30~ April 30th~ Congo

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    Another month of blogging comes to a close, the journey back to Congo, the beautiful children, the fantastic sense of hope and resilience, the bright faces, the humanity that I experienced in that war ridden part of Africa is over with this post. But it goes on in me, it never stops and it pulls…

  • Day 29~ April 29th~ Congo

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    When we grumble about the extra pound we had to lift in our air conditioned gym, the heavy bag of groceries we had to move from the supermarket cart to the trunk of our car, or when we have to work an extra hour in the office, it is good to remember how some other…

  • Day 28~ April 28th~ Congo

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    Working children is a concept that is becoming more and more foreign to us in the western world, but in developing countries, young children are often forced to join the work force. I find myself showing these images to my daughter on several occasions when a reality check and a need for the right perspective…

  • Day 27~ April 27th~ Congo

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    I have seen again and again that despite war circumstances, no matter how tough it gets, people try to retain a sense of normalcy in their day to day life. In Congo, everyone’s hair seems to be carefully colored, styled, braided and impressive looking. I loved seeing all the different hair dressers salons around town…

  • Day 26~ April 26th~ Congo

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    May all the children of the world run with joy and  never from fear… He followed our unicef SUV for more than 15 minutes in Goma’s streets giggling joyfully  and I got to capture his beautiful smile 🙂

  • Day 25~ April 25th~ Congo

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    I like to think that there are special angels assigned for each child that is born to this planet, to guide them, watch over them and shower them with buckets full of joy when life get rough… Glowing smiles, shiny eyes, boundless energy, these things are not what I expected to see in the children…

  • Day 24~ April 24th~ Congo

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    Coming from Lebanon, I get asked a lot about the civil war that ravaged my country for so many years and with that question there is always a request to clarity what the war is all about there. On many occasions I find myself likening the war to a board game. The board being the…

  • Day 23~ April 23rd~ Congo

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    It is difficult to imagine in our day of gadgets and the time of i-this and i-that available to everyone in the west even small children, that in some places like Congo, this is not the case at all. And because of that, the children I met often asked me to take a message back…

  • Day 22~ April 22nd~ Congo

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    If I were to put one common word when describing children from any country, I would say ‘resilience’… Children are developing beings, changing at a rapid speed, growing, absorbing, evolving and filled with energy that drives them through their process of becoming young adults. What I saw in a lot of the children in Congo…

  • Day 21~ April 21st~ Congo

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    For ‘les enfants de la rue’, the children of the street in Kinshasa, a bit of ground in an enclosed secure place can make a world of difference where their safety is concerned. These children roam the streets by night in search of food, opportunity and means and ways. During the day, a center like…