On the Ground in Congo
Congo, Nov 3 2010 When the JWW fact-finding team went to Congo in November 2009, they had... Read more »
On Saturday, an oil tanker exploded in Sange, a town just south of Bukavu in the South... Read more »
I returned home less than 40 hours ago. Images of Congo are still fresh in my mind: the children slaving in the Bunia goldmine, the rape victim who told us how her captors held her down in the field by driving a stake through her foot. I am driving to Wildwood school to report on our trip and our work. I am still jetlagged; still, in many ways, dazed from the dramatic contrast between my life and theirs. The images in my mind dance back and forth between the various people we met and the stories they told us. [...] Read more »
It is ironic that one week ago I was standing at a gold mine in the very... Read more »
Today we took a very long and difficult ride to visit a gold mine. Mining is prevalent... Read more »
We didn’t think we’d be back here so soon. It has only been 15 weeks since we last left eastern Congo in November 2009. This time, we’ve come back with a broader coalition of funders, spearheaded by Ben Affleck, to launch our collaborative Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI). Jewish World Watch was invited to join Affleck’s... Read more »
In the capacity of translator, I happened to be invited by the Jewish World Watch team on mission trip to Congo from 2nd to 12th November 2009. Though I am living in Rwanda now, I am an Eastern Congolese by birth, member of the Banyamulenge (ethnic Tutsi) community established in South Kivu with Bukavu as... Read more »
Greetings JWW blog readers. My name is Mike Ramsdell. I have had the privilege of capturing this “Congo journey” in still and moving images. I am pleased that Janice has asked me write a guest blog for two reasons. The first is so I may shamelessly plug my most recent film – THE ANATOMY OF... Read more »
How strange to be out of Congo. As Isaiah, our incredible translator, and I walked across the border he showed me the river that marks the boundary between the two countries here: on one side, chaos – a young man shaking down every old lady carrying insanely heavy loads up the mountain side, everyone crowding... Read more »
Ten days ago we arrived in Kigali with trepidation and expectation. It seems like a day or two ago in some ways; yet in other ways it seems like a lifetime ago.
Today we drove across the entire country of Rwanda—from Bukavu at the Congo-Rwanda border to Kigali. It took almost 8 hours. The countryside is... Read more »
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