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  • Day 16~ April 16th~ Congo

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    Some images print themselves in our minds and on our hearts because they affect us beyond the surface of visual impression. They go deep, they etch a mark on our soul… If you were to ask me what moment in my journey to Congo was the most haunting, I would say this one when I…

  • Day 15~ April 15th~ Congo

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    When the streets of the city are your home, when you are solely responsible for your own safety while other children are tucked safely at home, when your survival is depending entirely on the kindness of others… These piercing eyes belong to one of the 300, 000 children that call the streets of the cities…

  • Day 14~ April 14th~ Congo

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    There is a great power in Africa which throbs in the land like a drum beat and then spirals up through its people, radiating from every pore in their skin and fashioning a most complex range of human expression… I look back at this photo of a girl in Goma and I see shyness, strength,…

  • Day 13~ April 13th~ Congo

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    “We want peace in the world”… Is that too much to ask? Every child I spoke to in Congo told me the same thing, responded the same way when I asked them what their message to the world was, what was it they wished for the most… ” I want to live a peaceful life”…

  • Day 12~ April 12th~ Congo

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    It was so clear to me the day I saw these children dancing for hours, that Africa, the land, radiates and infuses its people with rhythm. Moving seems to be the most natural thing to them and they move with a lightness and swiftness that are most beautiful to witness. These children are young demobilized…

  • Day 11~ April 11th~ Congo

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    When I knew I would be meeting child soldiers in Congo, I had no frame of reference as to what I would be meeting. I had seen some snapshots sent to me before my trip, I had read the statistics, the articles, seen photos, but all of that did not prepare me for my first…

  • Day 10~ April 10th~ Congo

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    It was a Sunday morning in Goma and we had spent the early morning in the medical center meeting and photographing refugee children. The children and their parents had nothing but rags on, some had bandages, very tired faces and exhausted smiles. And then driving back on the black volcanic streets of the city I…

  • day 9~ April 9th~ Congo

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    Childhood is the most sacred part of life. We as adults are entrusted with it to shield it, protect it and allow it its full potential… And yet, in places like Congo, children are forcefully taken from their families by armed forces, sometimes as early as 7 years old, forced into military training, a life…

  • Day 8~ April 8th~ Congo

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    Back in 2009, when I visited Congo, there were about 300,000 children roaming the streets of the country and categorized under the name “les enfants de la rue”~ children of the street. I interviewed some of these children in the CAJED center in Kinshasa, a Congolese non-governmental organization created in 1992 to lodge, care for and…

  • Day 7~ April 7th~ Congo

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    Another innocent face, another curious gaze, another little life that was forced to shift course because of tribal conflict. In a region that has seen the loss of over 5 million people to genocide, poverty and conflict related casualties, this boy could be considered one of the lucky ones. He will receive medication, food, shelter…