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  • Three Interahamwe rebels attacked Nabintu, 43, of Kaziba, South Kivu, in 1996 while she was traveling on a small path just outside the village. She resisted the rebels until they cut her deeply with a knife. Nabintu said that when her husband came to search for her, the same rebels attacked and killed him. She has not remarried and continues to care for the six children they had together.  Melanie Blanding, 2006.
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  • Maria, 22, of Kindu, Maniema, undergoes surgery to repair a fistula at DOCS (Doctors on Call for Service) HEAL Africa clinic in Goma, North Kivu. A fistula is a tear in the vaginal tissue, leaving the patient incontinent.  Many women are abandoned by their families and avoid social situations that may expose them. Often, the physical damage is so severe that women require three to six surgeries to fully recover.  Melanie Blanding, 2006.
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  • Panzi Hospital reported that they treated 3600 women for violent sexual crimes perpetrated by rebel and government military personnel in 2005. Supported by ECHO and the Swedish Pentecostal Mission PMU Interlife, the hospital developed a VVS (Victims of Sexual Violence) program in 1999 in response to the unnaturally high crime rate against women and children since the war and ongoing conflict began in eastern Congo in 1998.
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  • Henriette, 35, and her eight-month-old twins spend each evening at “House Two” – a facility rented by Panzi Hospital to house more than 100 other women in the VVS program. The hospital rents two such houses to accommodate the average 250 women in the program at any given time.  Melanie Blanding, 2006.
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  • A friend braids Madeleine’s hair while she cares for another woman’s child one morning at Panzi Hospital. Most women suffer severe psychological trauma after the attacks. Madeleine spent time cradling other women’s babies every day before her surgery, which may have been a response to the loss of her only child while she was captive in a rebel village.  Melanie Blanding, 2006.
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  • The road from Goma to Rutshuru in North Kivu.  Michael Graham, July, 2008.
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  • Lucienne’s husband.
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  • Lucienne’s husband.
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  • Lucienne’s new home.
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  • Lucienne and children in front of her new home in Walungu.
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  • An Indian soldier on patrol in Rugari school, inside the UN buffer zone between the rebel and government forces.  June, 2008.
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  • A girl peeks into a malnutrition center.
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  • Several thousand families live on the side of this lava field- note that only a handful of huts are covered with sheeting.
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  • An out-of-place boy scouts uniform that traveled thousands of miles, before being worn by this boy in Mugunga camp.
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  • A tattered shelter of banana leaves covers a bed made mostly from volcanic rock, with only thin layers of cardboard as a makeshift mattress.
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  • A mother holds an infant being monitored in an International Medical Corps clinic in Mugunga.
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  • A man discusses his grandson’s morning abduction by soldiers.
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  • Dr. Denis Mukwege, the founder, director and chief surgeon of Panzi Hospital in Bukavu.
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  • Marianne and her father in Bulengo.
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  • A doctor with International Medical Corps at Bulengo camp, a few miles west of Goma.  The mountains in the distance are where government soldiers and rebels loyal to Laurent Nkunda are battling for control of Mushake town.
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  • United Nations peacekeepers in a Russian made Armored Personnel Carrier watch over Kibumba camp and monitor the area for rebel activity through daily patrols.
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  • A boy is measured for signs of malnutrition by a nurse at the International Medical Corps clinic in Buhimba camp outside Goma.  Malnutrition, respiratory infections and diseases such as malaria and cholera disproportionately affect children in the displaced camps around Goma.
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