A female orphan, playing the part of a rape victim, in a play performed to an audience at the celebration to mark three years of the Quaker Congo Partnership. Photo: Photos: Hazel Shellens.
Congo re-visited
Hazel Shellens reports on how a Quaker sponsored project in the Congo is making a difference
by Hazel Shellens
4th January 2013
Four years after my first visit to Friends in eastern Congo, I returned to see what difference, if any, three years of formal partnership between Quakers here and in the Democratic Republic of Congo had made to the lives of those in one of the poorest and most war ravaged communities in Africa – the area around Abeka in Fizi, South Kivu.
