“We [Congolese] try hard to break the silence about all the rape, the sexual slavery, but the entire world remains in silence. Congolese blood is in the street, and no one says anything. It is so painful. You have no idea.” — my friend Gorethy Nabushosi, a Congolese attorney who fought for women’s rights in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Congo Restoration’
From Congo to Dallas, women helping women
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, congo, Congo Restoration, DRC, Half the Sky, rwanda, Women for Women International on March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Week 17: Seven more days of deprivation
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged Africa, breakfast, bringing dinner back, Congo Restoration, dinner, family dinner, rock climbing, schedule, Whole Foods on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one’s spirits strong even when one’s body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.” — Nelson [...]
Our second African feast
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, tagged congo, Congo Restoration, Dallas, DRC, UMCOR on December 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” — Mahatma Gandhi
I first met Gorethy Nabushosi, founder of Congo Restoration, over hot tea at a La Madeleine up in McKinney, a drive from near downtown Dallas I wouldn’t usually be too thrilled about [...]
Country 7: Democratic Republic of Congo
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, congo, Congo Restoration, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, genocide, gorillas, orphans, rwanda, women to women international on December 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“The teeth are smiling but is the heart?” — Congo proverb
Since coming home from my first trip to Africa in September 2008, I have plotted to go back. My first trip was to Rwanda, site of the 1994 genocide where a million or so people were killed in a three-month period. My second trip, I [...]
Week seven
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged African feast, breakfast, Christmas, congo, Congo Restoration, DRC on December 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“I do like Christmas on the whole. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. ” ~ E.M. Forster
The week before Christmas week is always insane. Farrah Fawcett insane; not really hurting anybody but enough to keep you on your toes. So much to do before the [...]
Week Two
Posted in Africa, tagged breakfast, Christmas, church, Congo Restoration, Global Village Market, Greenland Hills UMC, Heifer International on November 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mohandas Gandhi
The weekend was completely filled with the Global Village Market, a two-day event I help organize annually at our church. It’s an inspiring alternative holiday market where people can buy fair-trade goods or “gifts” — like a pig for Heifer International [...]
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