Displaced people in a camp on the outskirts of Goma. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Real risks: Elizabeth Coleman on Quakers in the displaced persons camps of the DRC
‘We need to respond quickly.’
by Elizabeth Coleman
10th January 2025
In the displaced persons camps around Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there are about 460 Quakers – seventy-seven families; men, women and children. George Bani, a Quaker from Uvira in South Kivu, visited to report on the conditions, and what he found was very disturbing.
